Origin of Electronicalness in Silicon Forest

Federal Wireless Tower, Hillsboro Oregon

My better half turned this one up:

Happy 150th birthday to the bustling and prosperous city of Hillsboro, fifth-largest in the state of Oregon! Incorporated on October 19, 1876, the town was named after pioneer David Hill. I doubt there's anyone around who remembers this, but for 31 years (1921–1952), Hillsboro was the home of the second-tallest steel tower in the world—stretching 626 feet into the sky, behind only the Eiffel Tower—and encircled by eight shorter towers. Sounds like Stonehenge! But it was a gigantic, multi-purpose international communications facility that transmitted telegram messages around the world, and communiqués to and from ships at sea 1,000 miles away. Today? It's the Meriwether National Golf Club.

Wikipedia has a page about this thing.

Tektronix got started just after WW2 in Beaverton, which is next door to Hillsboro.

Intel arrived in 1974 in Aloha, which is also next door to Hillsboro.

East of Eden - Netflix Series

East of Eden | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix
A horrible show full of horrible people. Okay, maybe it's not a horrible show, it's probably just all the horrible people that make it so wretched. A long time ago I read one of Steinbeck's books it was pretty good, or maybe I was too young to appreciate how horrible the characters were. In this case we have a moderately tyrannical father has his two sons under his thumb. Eventually the father dies leaving a substantial fortune behind.

And then a lovely, psychopathic whore appears who gets involved with both of the boys. One son is strong and one is weak. The strong one recognizes the whore for who she is, the weak one is captivated by her. He completely fails to communicate with her. Eventually she runs off to pursue her natural calling of being a whore. As talented as she is, you'd think she could have come up with scheme to separate at least one brother from his fortune.

East of Eden is adapted from the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck.

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Electronical Borgness

Looking East-Southeast from Shute Road

Coming back from lunch at Longbottoms today, I'm sitting at the light and I look across Evergreen Road and into Intel's Ronler Acres Campus and I see this big black building with a bunch of stuff sticking out on top. I'm sure that building has been there for years, but it's the first time I noticed it, or maybe my brain is just noticing stuff like this now. I thought to take a picture, but then I thought I can just grab a screenshot from Google's Streetview and that will be good enough.

How so some ever, I get home and dial up Streetview and there is no building. So I poked around a bit to see if Google had newer footage from other places, and these are what I found. None of them give you the feeling of how big this thing is. I may have to go back and take an actual photo.

Looking Southeast from Westside Parking Garage

Looking West-Northwest from Southeast Parking Lot

Nobody has good photos of this place. This 3D drawing is the best of the lot, and it doesn't show much.

Ronler Acres Campus

I can't tell whether no one is interested in this place, or whether Intel or the NSA are trying to keep it on the down low.

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