Full Circle

Crown Point

If it weren't for the gold! Virtual business and company Montreal Today it can be over the cloud From hardware to software
  to anywhere Completing the Circle Idaho‐Maryland Mine Litton Building Bitney Springs Virtual Campus Tour Providence Site Crown Point

It usually starts with what we extract!

Camp Far West Malakoff Diggings Dredging More Dredging The Big Two Mines Comstock Lode Cornwall  Bourn and his mines Empire Mine Memorial Park   Pelton Water Wheels Camptonville Graystone New Almaden Foote Manson Bourn "Cottage" Pacific Heights Manson Filoli "Country House" Crystal Springs Reservor Panama‐Pacific Int Expo Nob Hill ‐ Pacific Union Club Errol MacBoyle Idaho‐Maryland Mine Loma Rica Ranch 1939 Golden State Expo Fountain Gazebo   Transportation Airport   Hospital

The Catalyst

Redwood City Stanford Palo Alto   Leaving the bay area Stanford Research Park English Mountain Litton's sold building First Fairchild Semiconductor plant   The Children (Former) Stead AFB   Community involvement   Aviation

Getting to Grass Valley

Fresno   Hare's Childhood Tulare Lake    The Parents    Donald George Corkhill Hare    Card Shark    Stanford     Graduate School   Getting to DGC Hare Company Port Arthur    WWII New London    Audio and data recording Deering‐Milliken ‐ Laurens, SC Deering‐Milliken ‐ Greenwich, CT Fairchild Aircraft Company   Hare & Company New Canaan, CT    Cinerama & First Sale    Sangamo, Sale number two Springfield, Il   Litton and Hare    Moving to Grass Valley
    & a falling out

Hand‐to‐Mouth

  Bitney Springs   Forget about finding
   a market
   need to find a business!   Dr. Hare's Management Style

Let's Do Video

  GV discovers its calling   ABC   Moving up the food chain:
   Video Production Switchers   Financially On the map

Life Under Tek

Beaverton   No Longer Independent   The End of the Hare Era

Tek/GV Line of Progression

  Jim Ward   Tom Long   Dave Friedley    Divisionalization    Long gone and back   Dan Wright    Friedley makes it to the top   Dave Mayfield    Friedley Out    Wright Gone   Larry Kaplan   Bob Wilson    Jerry Meyer - Tek President
    and Long Out Historic Ampex sign
  now gone!   Kaplan Out ‐ Castles Tek VP    Lucie Fjeldstad - Tek VP    Dan Castles leaves   Tim Thorsteinson

NVISION ‐ The only official spinoff

  NVISION Spinoff &
      Abandonment   First Clientele   HD ‐ Failure to Launch   The Book   No Tek Round Two   HD Finally Arrives   Grass Valley Overtures   Dot Com Bust

It worked until it didn't!

  Spanning the 3rd Revolution   Vertical Integration   Manufacturing    Bitney Springs Virtual Campus Tour   Beginning of the end    Slow to digital    Providence Site   Beginning of the end

The Breakup

  Completing the Digital
     Food Chain    ACATS    VSB verses COFDM    Going HD    Too late too to the Game    Spinning apart

Hot Potato!

 Chain of Succession  The Gooding Interlude   Thomson's Turn    Thomson's Ancestry    Thomson's Itself    Thales Broadcast    Bosch    Bell & Howell    Telemation    Philips    BTS & Philips Broadcast    Technicolor and Bulking Up!    The Implosion   Next! - Francisco Partners    Alain Andreoli    Tim Thorsteinson

RCA 3.0?

  Do something with all that cash!   GV's Next   Buying up the U.K.   Everywhere but here   In Name Only   Didn't know what they
    were getting into   Didn't know what they
    were getting into   Becoming software centric   The Stall   Sale   Black Dragon   Grass Valley Technology Alliance