mike.my...@pcmh.com (Mike Myers) writes: > I recall it being called Coyote Canyon on one of my trips out there.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#15 Mainframe Hall of Fame: Three New Members Added http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#16 Mainframe Hall of Fame: Three New Members Added previously referenced URL with pictures and blurb about "silicon valley lab" http://www.ajnordley.com/IBM/Air/SVL/ also from above: Formerly known as "Santa Teresa Lab" (STL), IBM's SVL, nestled in the country side just south of the foot hills at the north end of the Coyote Valley in south San Jose, employs 1,300 people, and is where much of the software for IBM systems is developed. ... snip ... wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_Valley when tandem growth as at its height, they took option on the open field on the other side of santa teresa blvd (north of bailey ave) ... to build a large campus type location ... and then things took a downturn and it never happened. both tandem and apple had plans in the 70s moving major operations into coyote valley. http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/lp0103_Disasters.html from above: * Coyote Valley in south San Jose (still being waged by the chapter). In 1983 the San Jose City Council approved a 548-acre industrial park for Tandem Computers, which, the LP reported, "in effect, opens up the entire 5,000-acre Coyote Valley for development." (The Tandem facility was not built.) ... snip ... apple and others had plans at various times in expanding into coyote valley. http://www.sanjoseca.gov/coyotevalley/index.html article from March 1999: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_199903/ai_n22390270/ from above: Mar. 3 -- Sixteen years after former Silicon Valley up-and-comers such as Tandem Computers Inc., Verbatim Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. said they were headed to San Jose's Coyote Valley, Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday formally announced its intention to do likewise. ... snip ... slightly related tandem drift ... past post mentioning celebration for Jim Gray last year: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#27 Father of Financial Dataprocessing When Jim left for Tandem ... Jim wanted me to take over some number of his activities at IBM ... including things like consulting with the IMS group and interfacing to early relational database customers (some references in the above post, including references to old email from the period). A recent post discussing some of the subject http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#3 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
