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| 2045.1 | | RAVEN1::PINION | Hard Drinking Calypso Poet | Wed Aug 12 1992 00:44 | 5 |
| Actually they'll wait til it's staffed and then they'll sell it.
Downsizing and profit, all in one fell swoop...can't beat it with a
stick! Sorry...just kidding...a little dark humor never hurt anyone.
Sdp
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| 2045.2 | Refer to DVN 8/11/92 | USCTR1::SMARINO | | Wed Aug 12 1992 08:40 | 2 |
| Yesterday in Bob Palmer's speech he said that we were moving forward
with the Hudson chip plant.
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| 2045.3 | All systems go | WILBRY::MCDONALD | | Wed Aug 12 1992 09:42 | 9 |
| My father is site foreman for the local union contracted to complete
Phase I of construction. All systems are go as far as he knows. Up
until 2 weeks ago they had all labor working 7 days/14-16 hrs. a day.
They have since cut out working on weekends, but have no plans to halt
any construction.
Shawn
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| 2045.4 | sure looks like active construction to me | CADSYS::HECTOR::RICHARDSON | | Wed Aug 12 1992 11:36 | 16 |
| It sure doesn't look like construction has halted to those of us who
work here - the most recent thing going on, for people who don't work
here but try to get through around the construction to get over to the
route 290 connector, route 495, or the shopping mall down the road from
HLO, is that within the last couple days, the remaining pavement on the
road going to the shopping mall at the HLO end of the road has been
removed - they are moving the road over to connect more smoothly with
Reed Rd. so that people don't end up driving right into HLO1's parking
lot or delivery dock area because it looks like the "main road". It's
getting to be quite a mess - looks like the storm sewer pipes for the
replacement piece of road are going in soon, and then they ought to be
able to pave it over. That road was a REAL mess for while after they
had to blast to get rid of some ledge where the replacement road is
going in - buckled the pavement pretty good. Right now it is gravel!
/Charlotte (in HLO2)
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| 2045.5 | Just add Water! | FHOPAS::JAMBE::MCMULLEN | | Wed Aug 12 1992 12:58 | 14 |
| Source: Dowvision
Copyright � Dow Jones & Co. 1992
Source: Dow Jones News Service
Headline: Ionics Gets $8.9M Pact From Digital For Water Treatment
Time: Aug 12 1992 0956
tory:
WATERTOWN, Mass. -DJ- Ionics Inc. (ION) said it won an $8.9 million
contract to provide a purified water-treatment system for a Digital
Equipment Corp. (DEC) semiconductor fabrication facility in Hudson, Mass.
9:56 AM
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| 2045.6 | Corporate dis-information | VERGA::FACHON | | Wed Aug 12 1992 13:22 | 4 |
| Could this be an instance of disinformation planted
by some unfriendly competition? Make DEC put out as
many fires as possible in the hopes of making things
worse than they are.
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| 2045.7 | cleanroom equipment anyone?? | SCCAT::SHERRILL | is it friday yet?? | Wed Aug 12 1992 13:38 | 5 |
| A friend of mine works as a project manager for constuction work.
It seems that DEC just sold a building in Mt Veiw CA. (I work in Santa
Clara) and just left over 2,000,000 worth of semiconductor cleanroom
equipment. This did not include two 90 ton chillers that were not even
used according to him.
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| 2045.8 | | TOMK::KRUPINSKI | Repeal the 16th Amendment! | Wed Aug 12 1992 14:03 | 4 |
| Is it possible that the terms of the sale of the building included
selling this equipment?
Tom_K
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| 2045.9 | | OXNARD::KOLLING | Karen/Sweetie/Holly/Little Bit Ca. | Wed Aug 12 1992 16:12 | 7 |
| Is this possibly the "Cupertino spin off"? (Whose new name I forget.)
There were apparently sound business reasons for sending these folks
off with sufficient support so they'd be successful, i.e., DEC is a
potential future customer, but is better off out of that particular
aspect of the business. You can tell the details have all blurred in
my mind.
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| 2045.10 | | SCCAT::SHERRILL | is it friday yet?? | Wed Aug 12 1992 16:20 | 15 |
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RE: .8
I do't know about that , but I don't think so because they are
taking the clean room apart. I will ask him if he knows , but
that is a possiblity I never thougth of.
RE:.9
Funny you should talk about that , there was an story in the San Jose
paper last night about that company. I think the name is Micro-Module.
Also I don't know if the building in Mt Veiw has anything to with this
new company.
Guess I should have more facts !!!!!!!!
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| 2045.11 | A Clarification? | LARRYC::SYSTEM | Larry Callaghan, Santa Clara CA | Wed Aug 12 1992 17:07 | 10 |
| I believe the story about leaving a building with clean room, etc in Mountain
View is inaccurate. The facility in Cupertino was the one we pulled out of
that had the semiconductor manufacturing equipment for the multichip modules
used by the VAX 9000s. We turned it over to some ex-DECcies headed by Bill
Robinette who formed a company named MicroModule, Inc. The Mercury News article
reports that the equipment was given to them (however MicroModule will still
lease the building). The article goes further and adds that not only is Digital
interested in buying whatever they turn out, but has a financial stake in
the company (maybe in exchange for the equipment).
To my knowledge, t
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| 2045.12 | | SCCAT::SHERRILL | is it friday yet?? | Wed Aug 12 1992 21:54 | 4 |
| No the building I am talking about is in Mt Veiw. For the life of me
I cannot figure out what a clean room was doing there. The only thing
I can think of is that it was part of the Cupertino group. I will try
to find out the name of the company that is taking the building over.
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| 2045.13 | The new HL building looked OK yesterday. | ANGLIN::SCOTTG | Greg Scott, Minneapolis SWS | Thu Aug 13 1992 01:04 | 11 |
| I just happened to be in Hudson yesterday with a customer. We were on
a corporate visit. Part of it was a tour of the facility. So we all
walked around HL(something). At one point, we looked out the window at
the new building under construction. I saw some massive footings and a
bunch of people who looked like they were working. I also saw a bunch of
concrete pouring equipment.
So, as of at least yesterday, it looked like construction was
continuing.
- Greg Scott
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| 2045.14 | | CUPMK::AHERN | Dennis the Menace | Thu Aug 13 1992 10:02 | 3 |
| Well, if they want it clean enough for making chips, of course it will
be scrubbed.
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| 2045.15 | Busy as bees... | ASDG::SBILL | | Thu Aug 13 1992 13:34 | 13 |
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Yes, they are still working like crazy on the new building. They are
even working two shifts. I'm sure this project has made a few
contractors very happy!
Steve B.
p.s.
You should've seen'em all run when the 225' crane was hit by lightning
a few weeks ago. Fortunately, noone was hurt. It never occurred to me
before that that construction site is probably the worst place to be
during a thunderstorm. What with six cranes and all kinds of concrete
reinforcing bars sticking up all over the place.
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| 2045.16 | Support from the top | MR4DEC::HARRIS | Cent milliards d'�toiles | Thu Aug 13 1992 13:59 | 4 |
| I'm sure that Bob Palmer was very instrumental in the decision to build
the new fab facility at HLO. And Bob is *staying*.
Mac.
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| 2045.17 | there was! | TOOHOT::ROCHA | | Thu Aug 13 1992 14:06 | 4 |
| Yes there was a clean room in Mtn. View used to support the earily days
of final assembly for the Cupertino operation...
/ed
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| 2045.18 | disk plating | WRKSYS::BHANDARKAR | Good enough is not good enough | Fri Sep 04 1992 14:18 | 9 |
| RE: <<< Note 2045.17 by TOOHOT::ROCHA >>>
-< there was! >-
> Yes there was a clean room in Mtn. View used to support the earily days
> of final assembly for the Cupertino operation...
That building was used in the early 80's for plating disk platters.
/d
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