Hi again! It was a pleasure to meet you at my parents estate sale. My Dad, Gene Malatesta, was happy to learn that ALL of his Intel memorabilia, including his awards, were sold. I took his desk nameplate of course. The Barbados site was an Assembly Plant called A2. My dad was the plant manager. When the decision was made to close the plant is was heart breaking as the people of Barbados were amazing workers and humans. Thanks for acting as a “keeper” of very cool Intel history!
What an amazing collection of 1980s Intel memorabilia. My favorite items are all the buttons. So cool! Thank you for scanning all the newsletters, etc. Those will be nice to have in digital form, especially nice clean scans.
Maybe not a coincidence, but "Cosmic Cube" was the original name from 1966 of what the Marvel movies called the "Tesseract", basically a miracle machine. Invented by Jack Kirby (with dialogue by Stan Lee) for the Captain America story in Tales of Suspense #79.
That is very interesting. I wonder if there is a connection. I have since learned that the Cosmic Cube was indeed a hypercube architecture. The article says that it's an 8x8 grid implying that it may be some sort of toroid interconnect like the old Beowulf clusters. Other sources say that it was a hypercube implying a 4x4x4 topology. That... is a lot of interconnect for that time period.
I'm struck by how many Black people are in the employee headshots/pictures in the Pacesetter magazine. The history of computing and the "important" figures are all too often presented as almost entirely White, and it's great to see the people of colour who made so many of these products and ideas possible with their contributions of all shapes and sizes. You mention Barbados at one point, was A3 in that country?
Pacesetter seems to have been local to the site in Barbados, so the local employee photos would be representative of the population of Barbados. As far as I can tell, that site operated from sometime in 1977 to October 1986. I can't find any information about what that site was actually called.
Hi again! It was a pleasure to meet you at my parents estate sale. My Dad, Gene Malatesta, was happy to learn that ALL of his Intel memorabilia, including his awards, were sold. I took his desk nameplate of course. The Barbados site was an Assembly Plant called A2. My dad was the plant manager. When the decision was made to close the plant is was heart breaking as the people of Barbados were amazing workers and humans. Thanks for acting as a “keeper” of very cool Intel history!
It was a pleasure meeting you too! Now... I just have to roll up my sleeves and start scanning all that stuff! :)
What an amazing collection of 1980s Intel memorabilia. My favorite items are all the buttons. So cool! Thank you for scanning all the newsletters, etc. Those will be nice to have in digital form, especially nice clean scans.
Don't thank me yet... I still have to actually do all that scanning work! 😂 I really like the buttons too.
@@TalesofWeirdStuff Fine. I retract my thanks LOL. Now get to scanning Mr Man! 🙂
Maybe not a coincidence, but "Cosmic Cube" was the original name from 1966 of what the Marvel movies called the "Tesseract", basically a miracle machine. Invented by Jack Kirby (with dialogue by Stan Lee) for the Captain America story in Tales of Suspense #79.
That is very interesting. I wonder if there is a connection. I have since learned that the Cosmic Cube was indeed a hypercube architecture. The article says that it's an 8x8 grid implying that it may be some sort of toroid interconnect like the old Beowulf clusters. Other sources say that it was a hypercube implying a 4x4x4 topology. That... is a lot of interconnect for that time period.
I'm struck by how many Black people are in the employee headshots/pictures in the Pacesetter magazine. The history of computing and the "important" figures are all too often presented as almost entirely White, and it's great to see the people of colour who made so many of these products and ideas possible with their contributions of all shapes and sizes. You mention Barbados at one point, was A3 in that country?
Pacesetter seems to have been local to the site in Barbados, so the local employee photos would be representative of the population of Barbados. As far as I can tell, that site operated from sometime in 1977 to October 1986. I can't find any information about what that site was actually called.
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