Yes! I met him in person at multiple local interest group meetings (probably the Almaden Cycle Touring Club and/or SVCS) back in the 1980s. It sounded like a

Yes! I met him in person at multiple local interest group meetings (probably the Almaden Cycle Touring Club and/or SVCS) back in the 1980s. It sounded like a great lifestyle, if you could maintain it and/or had means. His data-input system using four keys on each handle to enter data a byte at a time while riding could be replaced with far more efficient techniques with off-the-shelf modern hardware (he had to innovate all of his stuff on the fly, with various hardware experts contributing prototypes).