[ExI] goodbye shockley lab

[John Grigg]

Spike, why didn't the tech titans of Silicon Valley buy and preserve the
site?  Do they have no sense of history?


John  :  (

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:34 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *>* *On Behalf Of *colin hales
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] goodbye shockley lab
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> >…The electrical engineer's blood in my veins shares your trauma.
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> >…I hope there's a plaque or something.
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> There is not!  While the building still stood, a plaque was mounted out
> front.  You can see it to the left of this Google Maps photo.  You can find
> it still on Google Maps if you enter  389 San Antonio Road, Mountain View
> CA.
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> I don’t know where that plaque is now, but I sincerely hope it ended up
> over in the Computer History Museum which is less than three miles away
> from the now absent cornerstone of human history:
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> The wood on the building was rotting so it was easy to break off.  I have
> a piece of it in a shrine in my office.  I collected it when Anders and I
> worshipped at the site a couple years ago.
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> So tragic.  The barbarians could have at least left us a Wailing Wall on
> the site.
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> spike
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