Re: Silicon Valley/SanFran in June

Thank you for everyone's suggestions. I'll definitely visit the
computer history museum... Is NASA or Google open to the general
public? Also are there any supercomputer centres in the area that
allows visitors?


On Apr 22, 10:24 pm, James Polley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was over there in Nov 07, back when the AUD was at >$0.95USD.
> On Thanksgiving day, lacking anything better to do, I borrowed a bike, and
> in ~4 hours of fairly easy riding I hit the Google, Yahoo, and Apple
> campuses, taking in Microsoft, Juniper, Nokia, Motorola, Lockheed Martin,
> NASA... PARC and Cisco were fairly close and I could have hit those as well,
> but I'd started late in the day and it was already well past sunset by the
> time I got to Apple.
>
> I didn't *do* anything at any of the campuses, just rode past them, but it
> was the day when I realised what "Silicon Valley" means.
>
> The CHM is definitely worth a visit. If you can, try for a guided tour -
> their hours are athttp://www.computerhistory.org/hours/.
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Martin Visser <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > You could pay homage at the HP "garage", probably find Xerox PARC, and also
> > where SUN (Stanford University Network) started. Apple ( 1 Infinite Loop,
> > Cupertino), Cisco,3Com, Synoptics and Intel were all there as well I think.
> > I imagine there must some sort of tour you can do (along the lines of the
> > Beverly Hill celeb tours but for geeks!)
>
> > One thing to visit when I went was a store like Fry's Electronics which
> > sold lots of computer parts. They were certainly different from anything I'd
> > seen when I went 15 years ago, but probably not so different from MSY or
> > somesuch now.
>
> > Regards, Martin
>
> > [email protected]
>
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jamie Wilkinson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >> The Computer History Museum in Mountain View is free entry and has lot
> >> sof awesome stuff, right now they have a Babbage analytical engine
> >> that they operate 3 times a day.  Truly awesome sight.  It's just
> >> north of the 101 at the Shoreline Blvd exit.
>
> >> 2009/4/22 Carlo Sogono <[email protected]>:
> >> > I'll be int he Sillicon Valley/SF areas this coming June.
>
> >> > What tech-related places can I visit? Need suggestions.... thanks.
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