[email protected] (Gabe Goldberg) writes:
> So when Southwest Airlines started offering daily nonstops from
> Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport to San Jose, I
> booked a trip with my husband, Eric. After an affordable
> transcontinental flight, we landed at Mineta San Jose International
> Airport, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

really conflicted about (almost) doing the reverse (on Alaska). One of
the Boyd "people" is back from Afghanastan for a couple weeks and will
be holding Boyd "beer" night in the basement of Ft. Myers O-club this
week (Boyd would regularly hold court there)... I use to sponsor Boyd
briefings at IBM.

I also used to sponsor (IBM) "Friday after work" in San Jose, frequently
(half priced pictures of anchor steam) at Eric's on Cottle across from
the main plant site. Eric's is still there ... but much of the plant
site has been plowed under and the rest is no longer IBM. I'm no longer
in San Jose ... but I try and stop by Eric's every year when I go back
for "Hacker's" (silicon valley invitation only tech conference, for a
time I was the only IBMer, early conferences, people could bring
unannounced products for others to play with; culture has significantly
changed since early days, been a long time since Apple developers show
up with unannounced products for competitors to play with).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hackers_Conference

Old post mentioning Boyd (posted to IBM-MAIN)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#25 
includes several old emails mentioning Boyd ... including a "Friday's"
email notice mentioning that I have hardcopies handouts of Boyd's
presentation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#email830512

1998 sat. photo of old plant site, 85 running horizontal across lower
half of the picture and cottle rd running vertical across left side of
picture, railroad running diagnally across upper right, "IBM" plant site
still mostly intact in the middle. Bldg. 28 (triangle shape, old san
jose research) in the upper right intersection of cottle & 85, with the
homestead (and lack) next to it.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ibm5600-1998.jpg

current area, lots of plant site gone, now condos, apartments,
stores
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Erik's+DeliCaf%C3%A9/@37.248622,-121.8020719,1294m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x808e2e18a77f94bd:0xadfa00ef945ff99d!8m2!3d37.2491302!4d-121.8044912?hl=en

last year, both bldg 14&15 (where I played disk engineer) still existed,
current sat. view, bldg 15 is plowed under ...  bldg. 14 still exists
and cars in the parking lot. posts getting to play disk engineer in
bldg 14&15
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk

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