siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) (10/20/89)
Earthquake News from Silicon Valley: According to a friend of mine who lives and works in Silicon Valley, all of the companies in Silicon Valley are in good shape with minor or no damage from the earthquake. The exceptions are Apple and Ashton-Tate; Apple's DeAnza 3 (hardware R&D) was condemned, Ashton-Tate sustained "major building damage" (extend unknown) at their Mac development headquarters. Rich. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel "There is no personal problem which cannot be solved by sufficient application of high explosives." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (10/20/89)
> According to a friend of mine who lives and works in Silicon Valley, >all of the companies in Silicon Valley are in good shape with minor or no >damage from the earthquake. The exceptions are Apple and Ashton-Tate; Apple's >DeAnza 3 (hardware R&D) was condemned, Yeah -- I'm happy to say that, according to Apple folks, there were no fatalities and no serious injuries at any Apple site. Many of the buildings have been re-opened, except fro DA3, the rest should be coming online soon. DA3 people are going to be relocated to different buildings and life will resume. >Ashton-Tate sustained "major building >damage" (extend unknown) at their Mac development headquarters. That's unfortunately not surprising, since they were down in the bowels of Los Gatos right up against the foothills. Beautiful building, but right down where it was all happening. -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking] Trust Mama Nature to remind us just how important things like sci.aquaria's name really is in the scheme of things.
bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) (10/21/89)
In article <35761@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >(various reports of earthquake damage in Silicon Valley) Has anyone heard anything about Borland? They're located in Scott's Valley, which is not far from the epicenter of the quake. They're also in an area which is very susceptible to land movement (mudslides, etc.). John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarne |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (415) 549-2684 | |
lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) (10/21/89)
In article <2908@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) writes: > damage from the earthquake. The exceptions are Apple and Ashton-Tate; Apple's > DeAnza 3 (hardware R&D) was condemned "Condemned" is too harsh a word, I think. The building is not being torn down, as far as I know. "Uninhabitable" is closer to the situation. There was a lot of water damage from a sprinker, and a lot of glass and other stuff. Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. Object Specialist Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr AppleLink: Rosenstein1
ric@netcom.UUCP (Richard Bretschneider) (10/23/89)
siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) writes: >Earthquake News from Silicon Valley: >damage from the earthquake. The exceptions are Apple and Ashton-Tate; Apple's >DeAnza 3 (hardware R&D) was condemned, Ashton-Tate sustained "major building >damage" (extend unknown) at their Mac development headquarters. I am not an official spokesperson for Ashton-Tate, I just work there. The following is information based on my personal observations and is not to be considered official Ashton-Tate released information. (Don't lawyers have enough to do without making us all too paranoid to talk to each other?) Well, I was in the Ashton-Tate building when it happened, and I would have thought that we were about to roll down the hill. The building did what it was supposed to do, most of the cracks define pieces of drywall that moved rather than broke. Air conditioning pipes broke on the roof, and leaked water in several areas. I work on the second floor, and as a writer am part pack- rat. Three years of manual drafts and technial notes left their places on my shelves and covered the floor (about a foot thick.) The top of one of my windows broke, but my Macs and Laserwriter came through like champs, as did the Supermac hard disks, all of which were turned on. The third floor was even more of a mess, bookshelves down, big file cabinets down, people down. Only one minor injury that I know of and that is another testament to the building. In general, the building lost about 5 to 10 percent of its glass, the air conditioners (big mothers) moved and will have to be fixed, much taping and painting of drywall, acoustical roofing to be replaced in many areas, nerves and composure to reestablish, and this awful stain in my pants to take care of! We were able to reenter the building on Thursday (after the inspections) and our telephone support was the first area to go back into operation. I'm going in to start cleaning up my office this morning. This all follows several days of internal Ashton-Tate programs to help the survivors in Puerto Rico. Karma. -- Richard A. Bretschneider These are my words. My employer's Ric Bret words are often spoken in haste, and RAB rarely resemble my compassionate prose.
cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) (10/24/89)
We had lots of broken glass, and apparently the floor buckled in spots, but no one was seriously injured. The extent of building damage is still being assessed. --Cy--