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The Digitizing Report

Steven K Roberts

Tales from the mobile media laboratories

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Lament for the Semi-Sentient

Long ago, I wrote this little humor piece… with fantasies about my homebrew computer developing intelligence and getting bored with sitting around in a keyboard wait loop. This was its first publication (in the obscure General Bull News She...

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Gonzo Engineering

by Steven K. Roberts

May, 2004

Microship- a decade of nautical geekery

If you probe the interstices of an industry increasingly dominated by Big Business, you’ll discover a microculture of hackers motivated by the mad bliss of inven...

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A Cloud on Wheels

This series began with technical pieces about media digitizing tools. But my project scope has evolved over the past year, and I want to explore the larger meaning of that term. I believe we are seeing a new class of computing machine that...

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The Wire Recorder

Ever wonder what came before tape recorders?

We’ve been digitizing audio for years, using the venerable Otari reel-to-reel, rackmount cassette, microcassette transcriber, DAT machine, miniDisc, and vinyl. But a marvelous contraption came...

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A Maze of Filesystems

My little media lab began with a movie scanner that I bought to digitize my dad's treasures from the forties. I installed it in the lab on my boat, added a fast gaming PC that gave me a good excuse to buy an Oculus Rift, and started digitiz...

2 years ago
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  • Steven K Roberts

    I'm a paleo-geek who digitizes ancient media in a mobile lab parked on San Juan Island. In the '80s, I pedaled 17K miles on a computerized recumbent bicycle as the first digital nomad, and am now publishing the tale of that decade.

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