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Meetings with Remarkable Men - In Silicon Valley. Dr Edwin Van Wyck Zschau - President of System Industries and Later Congressman to the US House of Representatives...

I started working for Dr Zschau in 1975 and we built Disc Drive Controller Cards for Hospitals to Keep Patient's Charts. A Great Idea. We had a company Song that we Sang at Staff Meetings... Lyrics: 'System, System Industries... Here we go... Hand in Hand... Solving Data Mysteries... For the Betterment of Man.' He also worked at IBM and represented California's 12th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1987.

On Family Day at the Factory, Mom and Dad took a Personal Guided tour with Dr. Zschau. The three of them had a fine time as my parents had never been in a room with a dozen disc drives spinning. Each one the size of a Washing Machine. It sounded like the Generator Room at Hoover Dam, but quieter.

Control Data Corporation Disc Drive

The reason we had a Company Song is that Dr Zschau had just gone to Japan and he wanted to Incorporate their Business Practices in our Company. First, he hired 20 People from Japan and brought them over to Run the Silonix Division. Then he instituted 'recommended' exercise lunches of two hour duration. I often went swimming at the Santa Clara International Swim Center with my First Ex-Wife who worked the Graveyard Shift at National Semiconductor.

In the Machine Shop there were two Boxing Punching Bags. If anyone felt stress at work, they could go punch the bags.
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My Immediate Supervisor was Dan Aragaki, a Harley Davidson Riding, Martial Artist. Yes, I Simply Did what Dan told me to do Instantly Because... Not only was his Advice Correct, but I was Scared of the Man. (Or maybe that was Respect)

Ben Yamada made Elegant Clay Sculptures of the Ink Jet Printer Silonix was Inventing.

Aman Kawaja supervised the Assembly Line and Inspired the Ladies to Work Faster with Giant Charts on the Wall Tracking Production. 100% of the Assemblers were Female in 1975. They were better at hand eye coordination and manipulation of tiny objects than men.

David Yamada created Printed Circuit Board Artwork on Mylar using Black Chartpak Tape. He also liked to go Helicopter Skiing in Canada. A Helicopter flew him to the Top of the Mountain in Banff, and David Skied Down.

Steve Wakasuki Refused to be Hurried at Work. He also created PCB Artwork also and no matter how much pressure Middle Management put on him to finish the drawings Quickly, he simply ignored them. Quality First.

Jesus Del Real was the Draftsman who sat next to me and did most of my training. I learned How to Draw the Drawings associated with PCB Manufacture from Jesus. When I moved to Washington DC the next year, my portfolio got me two job offers in one day. Thank You, Jesus!

I accepted the Job Offer from Major Paul Jones USAF and worked at Analytic Communications Systems for six years. Project TEMPEST.

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The Title of this Blog Post was Pirated from the Book by G. I. Gurdjieff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetings_with_Remarkable_Men
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Another Autobiography by a Co-worker Ray:
http://whiteworld.com/cyreenikland/books/surfing/surf-03e.htm

Newspaper Articles:
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-29/news/mn-381_1_system-industries

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/21/business/business-people-a-son-of-silicon-valley-back-from-capitol-hill.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/1993-05-09/ed-zschau-doesnt-fit-big-blues-mold-and-thats-the-point

Alumni Page Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_new/PAW04-05/09-0223/features3.html
Professor Ed Zschau ’61 serves as guru to budding entrepreneurs
By Jordan Paul Amadio ’05

It is the last day of class before winter break, and 65 seniors are mesmerized by a professor in a Bugs Bunny tie. For the past hour, he has been recounting the details of his autobiography — studying physics and philosophy at Princeton, running a $6 billion division of IBM, founding two technology companies, winning a congressional seat in California. Suddenly, the lecturer pauses. Smiling to himself, he continues an end-of-semester tradition inaugurated four decades earlier, when he was Stanford Business School’s 24-year-old faculty wunderkind. Without warning, professor Ed Zschau ’61 begins to sing.

A Japanese Webpage Selling Stuff Online Using Copied and Pasted Data from Wikipedia as Clickbait... They Fool the Google Search Engine into thinking that this webpage is worthy, then advertise all kinds of 'wonderful' but useless products:

But they had a Great Photo for me to Pirate.

Picture of a PDP-11. Our Cards served as an Interface between Mini Computers and Disc Drives.

The Ultimate Goal was to Store Medical Information about Patients on Computers so it could be Easily Distributed between Doctor's Offices and Hospitals.

Sadly, HIPPA Regulation Prevents the Easy Distribution of Medical Information.

However... In Recent Years Security and Privacy Problems Have been Solved and Everyone Views Their Own Medical Information Online! Excellent!

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Speaking of Santa Clara...

The Grateful Dead Farewell Concert - Santa Clara 6-27 and 6-28 2015 - Photos and MyStory - A Rainbow Appeared over the Concert... Many Felt It Was Jerry Garcia Visiting from BEYOND...

Music so good it changes the weather. On 6/27 there was a Rainbow over Levi Stadium and then it Rained. Just a very light sprinkle, but we all felt it.

photo of Rainbow at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-dead-rainmakers-santa-clara-6.html

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When I was working at System Industries in Santa Clara, California (1976) the owner of the company (Dr. Edwin Zschau) went to Japan to learn how to run a business.

They were doing very well in comparison to USA companies and there was a lot of interest in learning why. So we adopted many oriental concepts and implemented them in our business. One thing was that we had a company song. We had a birthday meeting every month and we would all sing the company song.

Lyrics:
"System, System Industries, Here we go, Hand in hand.
Solving Data Mysteries for the betterment of man."

Another thing we did was take a two hour lunch so we could exercise. I swam at the Santa Clara International Swim center with my wife. She was working the Graveyard shift at National Semi-conductor so we met twice a day. Lunch and evenings.
We had many people from foreign countries working there. When Dr. Zschau went to Japan he hired many Japanese people. Immigrants made our company better. That was a universal fact of life about Silicon Valley... The brightest engineers worldwide came here for work. I had a neighbor from Nicaragua who came to work at IBM. And another Engineer I knew came from Germany at the end of WW2 to work at Lockheed. Very Common.

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Another time in Santa Clara we partticipated in a "Car Rally". Everyone would meet at a starting location then we were given a series of clues as to where to go next. One clue was "Go to a street named for a part time orchestra leader." We were supposed to figure out the puzzle and navagate to checkpoints. The answer to that clue was "Semi-conductor Blvd"... semi meaning part time and conductor is the leader of an orchestra. This was all part of the California Car Culture.

Read more of my Auto-Biography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Labor Union Strike at Mental Hospital in Eureka, CA. Unsafe Working Conditions.

In 2015, Half of the Employees at our Mental Hospital (Sempervirens) Quit. The County of Humboldt Refuses to Hire Security Guards and an Employee got Hurt.

One rally attendee, Tim McDermond, explained the purpose of the rally to KHUM’s Mike Dronkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcYYz0L39s

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/apr/28/union-workers-rally-outside-sempervirens/

So, this blog post is about the Labor Union Rally by AFSCME.

I really enjoyed the comments section of the newspaper website. Many people had interesting opinions but... Most of the Conservative Posts were from Anonymous People that used Fake Names and No Photo... Just a Grey Man Icon. ...and... The Comments seemed to be Copied and Pasted from a Standard Template of Ayn Rand Philosophy. Tea Party Trolls. Paid Puppets of Koch Industries.

greg vanderlaan:
What's up with everyone using Secret Identities and Grey Man pictures for your thumbnail? Why not use your real name? Why not Upload a Picture of Yourself? Why be Anonymous when you can be A NOM NOM NOM MOUSE?

my thumbnail picture for posting comments

'face reality' replied: Bla Bla Bla

greg vanderlaan:
Many Grey Man Commenters are Paid employees of Koch Industries. They refuse to reveal their real names because often ONE employee can post under Many different screen names to give the illusion of a Grass Roots Movement when in fact it's just Astroturf. Come out of the closet 'face reality'... Are you the same person as 'you know why', 'Groff' and 'Go Team' ? Who Are You?

'you know why' Replied: Quack Quack Quack

'Groff' Stated...

'Go Team' Stated...

'aiko' Stated...

greg vanderlaan:

Some County Employees are Simply Paid Too Much. Dr Phillip Crandall's 2009 salary somehow exceeded $215,000 despite the fact that his position's maximum annual salary is listed as $161,692. I wonder what it is now... If Dr. Phil could somehow squeak by on merely $161,692 we would have enough money to hire security guards... Source: http://www.northcoastjournal.com

greg vanderlaan:

Thank You Tim McDermond! Unsafe working conditions at 720 Wood Street.

'DAV ' Stated...

'Not The 60's Anymore' Stated...

'California Conservative' Stated...
'Jim' Stated...

greg vanderlaan:

I prefer Private Sector jobs like Radio Shack also but they went bankrupt...

guest:

Hey, Jim dude, you're swinging both ways on this thread. Below you support the generous public employee benefits but here you're critical of the same.

'Hillary didn't either' Replied...

'Curiouser & Curiouser' Summed it all up by Singing: I Don't Want to Work, Just Want to Bang on the Drum All Day! a song by Todd Rundgren...

Meetings with Remarkable Men - In Silicon Valley. Dr Edwin Van Wyck Zschau - President of System Industries and Later Congressman to the US House of Representatives...

The Grateful Dead Farewell Concert - Santa Clara 6-27 and 6-28 2015 - Photos and MyStory - A Rainbow Appeared over the Concert... Many Felt It Was Jerry Garcia Visiting from BEYOND...

When I was working at System Industries in Santa Clara, California (1976) the owner of the company (Dr. Edwin Zschau) went to Japan to learn how to run a business.

Labor Union Strike at Mental Hospital in Eureka, CA. Unsafe Working Conditions.

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