Fabulous video. Thanks for posting. My father started working at the San Jose plant (General Products Division, Cottle Road) in 1959 and retired in 1993 working at the Santa Teresa Laboratory (now Silicon Valley Laboratory) as a software development engineer. What's so great, is this video captures the huge plant site that once was and is now gone.
@douro20 This wasn't at Almaden. This was the Santa Teresa site. The site is now owned by Hitachi. Much of it is gone now, including the water storage ponds. But some of those characteristic multi-colored tiled buildings are there still on the Hitachi campus and the new Lowes built on part of the site also has a similar exterior motif. There's a new public park now there appropriately named Ramac.
Fabulous video. Thanks for posting. My father started working at the San Jose plant (General Products Division, Cottle Road) in 1959 and retired in 1993 working at the Santa Teresa Laboratory (now Silicon Valley Laboratory) as a software development engineer. What's so great, is this video captures the huge plant site that once was and is now gone.
SkylineToTheSeaAndMe 4 months ago
4:08 bouncing like my gramma's titties!!
Kg277 1 year ago
@douro20 This wasn't at Almaden. This was the Santa Teresa site. The site is now owned by Hitachi. Much of it is gone now, including the water storage ponds. But some of those characteristic multi-colored tiled buildings are there still on the Hitachi campus and the new Lowes built on part of the site also has a similar exterior motif. There's a new public park now there appropriately named Ramac.
heidiatplanetoid 1 year ago
Don't know.
douro20 2 years ago
and where can I buy some???
6364gg2 2 years ago
.... One year ago ....
produKtNZ 2 years ago
Iron oxide.
douro20 2 years ago
The IBM 305 RAMAC was so revolutionary that it completely changed the way computers were built.
douro20 2 years ago
It was going to be a temporary lab, but the Almaden Research Center still exists.
douro20 2 years ago
wow, just fascinating to watch those vintage documentaries
IBM- keep it up
Serpico261 2 years ago