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My wife and I were driving across the USA in late 2006 (the last day of 2006 even). I accidentally/intentionally routed us about 400 miles out of our way to pay a visit to the landfill. I had found the address on the net. We got there and I couldn't quite find it, then realized all the suburban build up was probably blocking it. Sure enough, behind the Sonic was the remains of the landfill. My (patient) wife stayed at the Sonic while I spent a couple hours wandering around the landfill site. She didn't have the same level of excitement about it that I did.

I found bits of trash, but no Atari cartridges. I took a lot of photos and video that I need to get online. (now 7 years later). I have one there though:
http://www.humanclock.com/news...

After we got back home to Portland I put up a blurb about it on my website. The very next day I received an email from a guy in Brazil who excitedly wrote: "WOW! YOU ACTUALLY WENT THERE!" I showed the email to my wife and said: "Look honey, I am not alone!"

Like humanclock's : http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php

IMHO, the INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK [sic] is the coolest handwritten timekeeper:

http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html ...plus it has one-second resolution.

That's still my favorite, although some prefer Human Clock:

http://www.humanclock.com/

That one requires occasional thought, which makes it suboptimal for a quick time check. Yes, I am that lazy. =-)

In 2002-2003 I rode my bicycle trip around the circumference of Australia. I had an IBM Thinkpad 600e. I can't speak for the other models, but this one survived a 13,000 mile ride on the back of a bicycle (including a few hundred miles of washboarded/corrugated dirt roads on the Gulf Track across to top end).

Only take the laptop if you cannot live without it. It is one more thing to worry about and one more thing to cause you headaches.

I took a laptop because I like to take a lot of photos. I was filling up a 128 meg flashcard every other day. (this was the 2.1megapixel days). Plus the http://www.lunky.com/ and http://www.humanclock.com/ websites needed constant coding so I really couldn't do without a laptop. I also needed to keep my 128meg MP3 player stocked with music for biking.

Photos:
I took about 35,000 photos during my trip. (check it out http://www.lunky.com/ I had to have a laptop primarily for this reason, to get the photos off my flashcards and onto CDs to mail home.

First and foremost, do not plan to FTP your photos home! Internet access isn't easy and fast like it is here in the USA. Uploading even several megs worth of original/fullsized photos home is impractical. Connections are dreadfully slow (due to being overloaded) and internet cafe's can be REALLY picky about how you use their machines. Their bandwidth (at least at that time) was metered so they would frown upon you transferring large amounts of files. I was kicked out of a cafe for plugging in my USB drive/mp3 player. I nearly got kicked out of another cafe in Broome because I simply had my laptop turned on and sitting next to one of their computers. A lot of hostels have those god-forsaken kiosks that don't even have a CD drive. This was all in Australia too, a first world country.

Blogs/journals:
If you find that you can get wifi easily and/or get things off of your laptop and onto a computer at a net cafe...compose a lot of your emails on a text editor. This way you can write whether or not you have net access and best of all, you don't have to shell out $5.00/hr for the privilege of typing. My laptop easily paid for itself this way. I could type up 10 hours worth of letters, website updates, etc...copy it to a disk, then load up the files, copy/paste into my webmail program and be done in 10 minutes. There was $50.00 saved right there.

Setup/Backups:
Always plan that your laptop is gonna get stolen next week, so keep stuff backed up and the backups away from the laptop. Set things up on your laptop so it is easy to back things up that can't be replaced. (photos, writings etc). If you have special software you need, stash it somewhere on a webserver or make burn copies that a friend can mail to you should you get your laptop stolen/etc. (I had to once do a new PHP/Apache/Mysql setup and could only get it off the net cafe's computer and onto mine via 1.44meg floppy discs. That sucked.) Since I was in Australia I could bank on a good postal system, but I still would burn two copies of my photo CDs and mail them to different destinations at different times.

On a side note, take a lot of photos of the stuff people don't normally take photos of. Years later you will be glad you did. Sunsets are a dime a dozen, but photos of a grocery store shelf or a power outlet are the little things that take you back to your day to day life traveling.

Coolest portable since the Tandy 100.

Ah yes, it was the guy at humanclock.com that said he was using a tandy trs 80 as a webserver

Ah yes, it was the guy at humanclock.com that said he was using a tandy trs 80 as a webserver

The web server at humanclock.

• Apache... on Unix heh? with PHP!, and wait... MySQL! wow... 32k... that should hold the table structure...

4999 ' startup routine 5000 READ MM$ 5100 SNIFF MM$ 5200 PEEK MM$
[Errors in geography of specific places]:

• I like those new operands... where's SCRATCH ?

12000 ' SYSTEM DATA FOR PROGRAM 20000 DATA 5000, 27966, 36460, 32642, 4907, 15746, 27714, 38746, 21078
[Contradictions of science/facts]:

• Mmm the good ol' days of poking your code with data... but wait... 16Bits !!! Maybe it's the piggybacked cpu patch...

http://www.humanclock.com/server1.html
[Crew/equipment visible]:

• I like the network cable barely holding in place between the BCR (bar code reader) cover and the obviously unconnected pins.... and how would it handle the 10mbit speed when the cpu is running a 2mhz...

http://www.humanclock.com/server2.html
[Revealing mistakes]:

• Walkman is connected to the 1/8" jack... but not kooked to the casette port...

http://www.humanclock.com/server3.html
[Audio/visual track mismatch]:

• Cool... they even ported all unix... probably booting on /dev/walkman :P... Errmm... did we see anything hooked to the M100 here... no ... oh! wireless /dev/walkman!... getting better on each pics :)

"4 gigabytes of data can be stored before we have to turn over the cassette "
[Continuity]:

• Tape interface was running at 1500bauds... 4294967296bytes/1500bauds = 2863311.5 secs (33 days tape... I hope you don't need the last byte!)

"version 100-BASIC.12 beta"
[Anachronisms]:

• Obviously, Bill did'nt coded this one...

"we have installed 4 "AA" batteries in the webserver in case of power failure"
[Plot holes]:

• If the M100 is powered externally, it won't fall back on battery power in case of failure

"All I/O"
[Visible boom mike]:

• Recording walkman... where is the input wire? I only see the headphone jack and no record button.

Anyway, I like this :)

• Apache... on Unix heh? with PHP!, and wait... MySQL! wow... 32k... that should hold the table structure...

4999 ' startup routine 5000 READ MM$ 5100 SNIFF MM$ 5200 PEEK MM$
[Errors in geography of specific places]:

• I like those new operands... where's SCRATCH ?

12000 ' SYSTEM DATA FOR PROGRAM 20000 DATA 5000, 27966, 36460, 32642, 4907, 15746, 27714, 38746, 21078
[Contradictions of science/facts]:

• Mmm the good ol' days of poking your code with data... but wait... 16Bits !!! Maybe it's the piggybacked cpu patch...

http://www.humanclock.com/server1.html
[Crew/equipment visible]:

• I like the network cable barely holding in place between the BCR (bar code reader) cover and the obviously unconnected pins.... and how would it handle the 10mbit speed when the cpu is running a 2mhz...

http://www.humanclock.com/server2.html
[Revealing mistakes]:

• Walkman is connected to the 1/8" jack... but not kooked to the casette port...

http://www.humanclock.com/server3.html
[Audio/visual track mismatch]:

• Cool... they even ported all unix... probably booting on /dev/walkman :P... Errmm... did we see anything hooked to the M100 here... no ... oh! wireless /dev/walkman!... getting better on each pics :)

"4 gigabytes of data can be stored before we have to turn over the cassette "
[Continuity]:

• Tape interface was running at 1500bauds... 4294967296bytes/1500bauds = 2863311.5 secs (33 days tape... I hope you don't need the last byte!)

"version 100-BASIC.12 beta"
[Anachronisms]:

• Obviously, Bill did'nt coded this one...

"we have installed 4 "AA" batteries in the webserver in case of power failure"
[Plot holes]:

• If the M100 is powered externally, it won't fall back on battery power in case of failure

"All I/O"
[Visible boom mike]:

• Recording walkman... where is the input wire? I only see the headphone jack and no record button.

Anyway, I like this :)

• Apache... on Unix heh? with PHP!, and wait... MySQL! wow... 32k... that should hold the table structure...

4999 ' startup routine 5000 READ MM$ 5100 SNIFF MM$ 5200 PEEK MM$
[Errors in geography of specific places]:

• I like those new operands... where's SCRATCH ?

12000 ' SYSTEM DATA FOR PROGRAM 20000 DATA 5000, 27966, 36460, 32642, 4907, 15746, 27714, 38746, 21078
[Contradictions of science/facts]:

• Mmm the good ol' days of poking your code with data... but wait... 16Bits !!! Maybe it's the piggybacked cpu patch...

http://www.humanclock.com/server1.html
[Crew/equipment visible]:

• I like the network cable barely holding in place between the BCR (bar code reader) cover and the obviously unconnected pins.... and how would it handle the 10mbit speed when the cpu is running a 2mhz...

http://www.humanclock.com/server2.html
[Revealing mistakes]:

• Walkman is connected to the 1/8" jack... but not kooked to the casette port...

http://www.humanclock.com/server3.html
[Audio/visual track mismatch]:

• Cool... they even ported all unix... probably booting on /dev/walkman :P... Errmm... did we see anything hooked to the M100 here... no ... oh! wireless /dev/walkman!... getting better on each pics :)

"4 gigabytes of data can be stored before we have to turn over the cassette "
[Continuity]:

• Tape interface was running at 1500bauds... 4294967296bytes/1500bauds = 2863311.5 secs (33 days tape... I hope you don't need the last byte!)

"version 100-BASIC.12 beta"
[Anachronisms]:

• Obviously, Bill did'nt coded this one...

"we have installed 4 "AA" batteries in the webserver in case of power failure"
[Plot holes]:

• If the M100 is powered externally, it won't fall back on battery power in case of failure

"All I/O"
[Visible boom mike]:

• Recording walkman... where is the input wire? I only see the headphone jack and no record button.

Anyway, I like this :)

Q: How long does it take to slashdot a Radio Shack 2.4mhz TRS-80 Model 100 portable running a port of Apache and PHP?

A: I don't know! I can't get to Humanclock to set my watch!

rimshot

I really do like their storage system though :)