I am in Bay Area, USA for 2 weeks which will take me to Silicon Valley, Redmond (WA)
and Los Angeles (for Microsoft PDC '08). Sunday evening I went along with my cousin
who lives here to Fremont
Temple. This is a well maintained and spacious (considering it is outside India)
temple and I was impressed by the newly build area for the south indian gods.
On Monday morning I went to the Intel
Museum in their campus in Santa Clara (CA). The museum covers about the history
of Intel from memory chips, 4004 to the latest chips; chip fabrication process and
basics of silicon, etc. The self visit doesn't take more than 30 minutes and I will
recommend visiting this only if you happen to be in Silicon Valley area. Not worth
travelling from anywhere far for this. I was told most of this is available online
in their website as well.
Seeing the Intel 386 PC on display brought old memories for me. I started learning
and doing extensive programming first on this PC - a 386SX (without the math co-processor)
computer from Wipro during my school days. It is on this PC I learned my first business
programming language - FoxBase and then Clipper. It is amazing the progress we have
had in terms of speed and features over the last 23 years - unbelievable.
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