Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > in the mid-80s there was a predication that ibm world-wide business > was going to double ($60b/annuum to $120b/annum) and there was a > massive manufacturing construction program. one of those was large > bldg. 50 on the main plant site. in the later downsizing from the > offsite bldgs, some were consolidating into offices in bldg. 50 and > others to santa teresa lab (bldg. 90, some 10 miles to the south).
some other pictures from site referenced in previous article ... cottle road site: http://www.ajnordley.com/IBM/Air/SSD/index.html in the plant site pciture from the air .... hiway 85 crosses the picutre from top left center ... to mid-left edge. the railroad and old hiway 101 (monterey rd) is from right center edge to bottom middle. you can just make out cottle rd overpass on hiway 85, horizontal towards the top of the picture. most of the "old" plant site is top half of the picture along cottle. including bldg. 10, 12, 14, 15. various stories about disk engineering work in bldg. 14 & 15 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/~subtopic.html#disk and the "old" sjr bldg 28 ... where the original relational/sql work was done (bracketed by the intersection of cottle & hiway 85): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr this was before new almaden research facility was built up the hill http://www.ajnordley.com/IBM/Air/ARC/index.html if cottle road were to be extended straight up the hill ... it would almost intersect the almaden facility (but cottle terminates at the bottom of the hill). to get the to almaden research (from cottle rd facility) ... you take the bernal rd thru santa teresa county park (the other access is via harry rd from the almaden valley side). in the right middle and bottom left pictures, harry road is seen heading down into almaden valley (towards the top of the pictures) and bernal road heading off to the right in the cottle rd image http://www.ajnordley.com/IBM/Air/SSD/index.html the large bldg. in the left center of the image is bldg. 50 built in the mid-80s (as part of the huge manufacturing expansion) for disk manufacturing. in the later downsizing, the offices in 50 was used to absorb some number of the people from off-site leased bldgs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
