STORY
Servio-Logic and Running Fiber in the Georgia-Pacific Building
Servio-Logic and Running Fiber in the Georgia-Pacific Building
- After five years at Tektronix, I joined Servio-Logic (which later became GemStone Systems) in June 1983 as system administrator and internal toolsmith for a 30-person engineering team.
The Commute and Expensive Parking
- Servio-Logic was located in downtown Portland, occupying the top two floors of what was then the Georgia-Pacific Building, plus a machine room in the basement.
- I lived in Beaverton and drove into downtown every day along Highway 26.
- Parking downtown cost $55 a month—an astronomical sum for parking back in 1983!
The Basement Server Room and the Silly Fiber Run
- Because our engineering offices were on the top two floors and the computers were housed all the way down in the basement, we had to run high-speed fiber optic cables through the building's conduits from the very top floors to the bottom floor.
- In a hilarious bit of corporate timing, barely two months after finishing the extensive fiber installation, the company decided to move out of the building!
- At Servio-Logic, I managed VMS systems augmented with Unix toolsets, providing infrastructure for the team creating GemStone's object-oriented database.
- After about ten months (June 1983 – March 1984), I transitioned to Sequent Computer Systems back in Beaverton.
What links here
These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.