[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Shannon) writes: > You didn't say where. IBM sold its Cottle Road facility in San Jose. I > can't imagine how much it sold for, but given the value of property in > Silicon Valley, and given the potential cost of cleanup after 50 years > of disk manufacturing, they probably made out pretty well. I believe > the employees moved to SVL.
before they sold the cottle rd facility (to hitachi) http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/sanjosesite/menuitem.fc9e54fd8b6d6fa7b8c22714bac4f0a0/ http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/?epi_menuItemID=58b0ea6df4571f8056fb11f0aac4f0a0&epi_menuID=3d0cb215112b6934ab937c27aac4f0a0&epi_baseMenuID=3d0cb215112b6934ab937c27aac4f0a0 http://www.hoovers.com/hitachi-global-storage/--ID__107188--/freeuk-co-factsheet.xhtml ... when 87 cut thru the middle of the property, the plant rec area came up on the other side of 87 ... as a result they had to put in a special underpass between the main facility and the rec area. shortly afterwards they sold of the rec area for development and it turned into apts/condos ... and they filled in the underpass. in the same time they sold off los gatos lab. (along with something like 200 acres of open land) ... which got torn down and turned into housing development. more recently, hitachi cutting site from 332 acres to 150 acres http://evergreentimes.com/100705/hitachi.htm much earlier, there had been consolidation of a number of a off-site leased bldgs adjacent to main plant site (bldgs, 86, 96, 97, 98, etc which also came up on the other side of hiway 87 when it was built). 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). one of the groups that got moved into bldg. 50 was the adsm group (much of the organizations had previously been in bldg. 98). adsm had morphed from workstation datasave faciilty (and has now been renamed tsm). workstation datasave facility had grown out of a backup/archive system i had written and deployed internally. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#backup santa teresa lab has been renamed silicon valley lab: http://www.ajnordley.com/IBM/Air/SVL/ in the photos from the above ... you can sort of see that the lab. was built on a marsh that got extremely wet during the rainy season from run-off (both surface and sub-surface) from the nearby hills. the datacenter is below ground and when it was first built ... they had significant water seepage problems into the machine room (separate from the later flooding problems mentioned in the above). I found the problem somewhat interesting since during college, I had a summer job as foreman on a construction project that was located on similar terrain ... large surface and sub-surface drains had been installed to divert the water flow around the site. past postings about the naming of the santa teresa lab.: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#56 South San Jose (was Tysons Corner, Virginia) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#20 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^ http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#34 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#37 Thread drift: Coyote Union (or Coyote Ugly?) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#11 YKYGOW... http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#6 HONE was .. Hercules and System/390 - do we need it? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#66 Mainframe Spreadsheets - 1980's History http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#11 Home mainframes http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#69 So I tried this //vm.marist.edu stuff on a slow Sat. night, http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#63 When/why did "programming" become "software development?" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#60 reviving Multics -- Computer Museum http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#25 TGV in the USA? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#14 Seven of Nine http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#10 IS CP/M an OS? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#32 Mainframe Emulation Solutions http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#31 Moribund TSO/E http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#12 Pre-relational, post-relational, 1968 CODASYL "Survey of Data Base Systems" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#6 a history question http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#25 Network databases http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#21 Old Computers and Moisture don't mix - fairly OT http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#22 Old Computers and Moisture don't mix - fairly OT past postings about filling up stl and having to move something like 300 from the ims group to "new" offsite bldgs. 96/97 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#23 CP spooling & programming technology http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#14 mainframe tcp/ip http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#65 Does the word "mainframe" still have a meaning? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#12 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#30 OT? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#22 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#33 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#34 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#46 3270 protocol http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#3 News IBM loses supercomputer crown http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#10 index searching http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#67 Total Computing Power http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#74 Itanium2 power limited? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#72 OT: One for the historians - 360/91 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#23 CPU Impact of degraded I/O http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#24 CPU Impact of degraded I/O http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#22 303x, idals, dat, disk head settle, and other rambling folklore http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#15 Mainframe Tape Drive Usage Metrics http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#22 What is timesharing, anyway? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#13 Device and channel http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#21 He Who Thought He Knew Something About DASD http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#10 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#12 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#14 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#45 winscape? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#45 FULIST http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#22 Channel Distances http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#23 Channel Distances ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
