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I had Sun Badge 12386... why do I remember that. (Or my CompuServe account 75460,1375, sigh.) The area between San Antonio and Shoreline I guess is now mostly
by salgernon 12y ago
I had Sun Badge 12386... why do I remember that. (Or my CompuServe account 75460,1375, sigh.)
The area between San Antonio and Shoreline I guess is now mostly Google; before that it was bracketed by Sun and SGI. I know lots of people that basically stayed working in the same set of buildings throughout the last 20 years: different companies, same view. That's soil has grown a lot of wealth.
- mathattack 12y agodifferent companies, same view I'm not sure if that's an original quote of yours, but it certainly captures the ethos poetically well.
- cannam 12y agoThere was a point in my life, having grown up in north-east England, when I thought this Sun-SGI strip sounded like the most wonderful otherworldly place you could possibly be. Sun workstations were the first machines I'd used that had seemed to be really limitless. And while wasting time at work in 1993 or so, I'd read Usenet posts by people like CJ Silverio at SGI that (though often seriously dissatisfied) had a mood that seemed to highlight how far away that world was from the one I'd grown up in. I pictured Silicon Valley as a real valley, with low orange sunlight picking out the slabs and flat roofs of the research centres, roads winding to the valley floor below, the sea at the end of the valley. How disappointed I was when I finally visited the place and found an extended grid-plan office park on flat reclaimed land with the odd hill in the distance.
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoI've spent a large part of the previous decade there. It's been, and still is, a special place in the Valley.