Several have commented that I seem too focused on HPites dying, rather than what is happening at our old company. So, just to give you an idea, we're always open to communication with living, breathing, functioning, achieving HPites. This week, for example, I have heard from a wide swath of folk due to a modest update to my own LinkedIn page.
Dave Dayton, who became General Manager of the Logic Systems Division in C Springs when I moved to Palo Alto, sent a note, among other things mentioning that his watercolor hobby has progressed nicely. He said, Check it out: ddaytonartist.blogpost.com
Greg Peters, sent notes about the HUGE run-ip n KEYS stock price recently. I shoulda, coulda, didn't have enough. He sends notes periodically, includes Jay Alexander usually, sometime4s adds Mike Davis and others from C Springs. Greg lives in the Napa Valley, still consulting in the quantum computing space. Here's the front end of his note" KEYS is doing very well at the moment in large part due to the massive AI investments going on around the world. Data centers use lots of cables and connectors and KEYS is extremely well positioned to address those design and measurement needs – including everybody’s favorite T&M franchise – Keysight VNAs
I sent a connection invite to Pat Byrne the other day; I didn't realize that he lived just a few miles from us when we were in Portland.
Bill Parzybok, Tom Saponas, Mike Davis, Eric Lessing, John Riggen, and a few others trade notes on occasion--all living in the C Springs area.
From Palo Alto and environs--have you priced the housing here lately? We should have kept our little Barron and Hilp home down the street from Art Fong by the Palo Alto library. I looked up the Barrett and Hilp company, just found out that they were instrumental in building the Golden Gate bridge. They built a few homes in Palo Alto circa 1950, in answer to the cheap and popular Eichlers. Here's the B&H citation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_and_Hilp. Jenny and I bought one at 115 Walter Hays Drive for $292,000, a princely sum in our view (and certainly so for my father) in 1986. It now is listed at nearly $5M. Sigh.
