On a tip from a friend at work, I took a little detour en route to work this morning and drove by what used to be the main IBM site in San Jose. Building 028, the former home of IBM Research in San Jose, and a place I spent many busy (and sometimes happy) hours before moving out here, was partially missing.
Hitachi, which now owns the campus, doesn’t need it all for their operations; instead, they’re going to develop a good chunk of it for residential and commercial use. Building 028 is in that chunk, and so it’s being devoured (and, I hope, recycled).
While I never had an office in 028, I’ll still miss it.