The word BULLETIN BOARD got my attention as I did run a BBS dedicated to girly photos back before the internet became popular and when you needed a second DSL phone line dedicated to the Commadore 64.
Try to imagine the tech industry growth I witnessed in the Silicon Valley '74 to 04, working on the traffic signals in Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Milpitas, San Jose and Los Gatos. I mean like "everybody that was anybody" was there....Apple, Fairchild, National Semiconductor, Nvidia, Ampex, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Xerox, Seagate, Quantum, Maxtor, Shugart, AMD, Intel, IBM, Lockheed Missles and Space, Western Digital. I know I left quite a few because it's been 50 years. Then there was the software people....Google, eBay, Oracle, Intuit, Adobe and many, many more.
I recall responding to malfunctions, vehicular knockdowns, and routine maintenance visits, etc. to traffic signals and signal and street lighting poles specifically at entrances to the facilities of H-P (Palo Alto), Apple (Cupertino), eBay (Campbell/San Jose), Intel (Santa Clara) and more. In the 29 years of signals and lighting work there I saw many changes.
It was quite an experience and it's indelibly embedded into my memory. I got to witness a little piece of history, one might say.
