{"title":"Silicon Valley","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"silicon-valley-rent-a-computer-tech-pictorial-map-calendar-mikkelsen-1994-p-8-007276","title":"Silicon Valley—Rent-a-Computer tech pictorial map \u0026 calendar—Mikkelsen 1994","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Silicon Valley — Rent-a-Computer — 1994'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilicon Valley on the eve of the dot-com boom, drawn as a cartoon townscape in which the companies are the landmarks. Apple’s rainbow logo sits at the bottom left beside a Newton handheld, and IBM at the bottom right beside a ThinkPad. Between them crowd Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, TSMC, National Semiconductor, Creative Labs, Verbatim, Network General, Oak Technology, Cylink and scores of smaller chip-makers, circuit-board shops and software houses, each with its own building and sign, strung along Highways 101, 280, 680, 880, 85, 237 and 17 and the Lawrence Expressway. Media Vision is there too, months before a fraud scandal brought the Fremont sound-card maker down, and at HCL America an American and an Indian businessman shake hands in front of their flags. The Golden Gate Bridge peeps in at the top, the San Jose Sharks and Great America make an appearance, and a smiling sun, a Rikei hot-air balloon and a Rent-a-Computer blimp float overhead. This is the hardware valley before the internet remade it: when Thomas Mikkelsen signed the artwork in 1993, Netscape, Yahoo and eBay did not yet exist, and Google was five years away. The Ultimate Poster Company of San Jose issued it as Rent-a-Computer’s calendar for 1994, nearly a metre tall, with a gold script title above the map and the full year’s calendar below. A quarter-size version is in the David Rumsey Map Collection.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54549220032859,"sku":"P-8-007276","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007276a.jpg?v=1793287652"},{"product_id":"silicon-valley-dot-com-tech-companies-panorama-map-calendar-silicon-maps-2002-p-8-007277","title":"Silicon Valley—dot-com tech companies panorama map \u0026 calendar—Silicon Maps 2002","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'2002 Silicon Valley'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilicon Valley in the depths of the dot-com crash, in a bird’s-eye panorama looking north up the valley to the Bay, the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate, with a Fujitsu blimp and a Silicon Maps balloon overhead. More than 150 company signs stand among the buildings: the giants Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, AMD, Compaq, Motorola and Broadcom; stars of the boom and bust such as Inktomi, Nortel, Lucent, 3Com, Agilent, Veritas, BEA and PeopleSoft; and Lockheed Martin, Silicon Valley Bank and Wells Fargo. Copyrighted in 2001 and carrying the 2002 calendar of the California Caster and Hand Truck Company, it urged readers to visit the internet version, with links to every firm. Many of those names, Compaq, Nortel, Sun, 3Com and PeopleSoft among them, would be merged or gone within a decade.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54549231534427,"sku":"P-8-007277","price":360.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007277a.jpg?v=1793287662"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/collections\/silicon-valley.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}