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(1980) in case you wondered, given that Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages around :)

And now, it's in the retirement home.

It was old in 1980.

By Steven K. Roberts, famous for being one of the first high-profile "technomads". I remember reading his "Computing Across America" series on GEnie, back in the day. He had a high-tech bicycle and wrote email using a chording handlebar keyboard with 8 keys (4 on a side) that he used to input raw ASCII into his computer.

I thought I recognized the name.

Roberts started with a recumbent bicycle with a little onboard computer and control panel he called Winnebiko. Then he switched to a thing with a trailer and solar panels called BEHEMOTH, "Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine ...Only Too Heavy" a 580 lb monstrosity that he could sometimes pedal at 3 mph, but he still put 17k miles on it. Later he got set up on a sailboat he called Microship, graduated to the Nomadness, then the non-sailboat Datawake.

Datawake's for sale now. See https://microship.com/datawake/

Previous discussion, March 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22578824

LISP Comes of Age