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Walking Across the Hallway to Intel with Keith Lofstrom

Type: story
Title: Walking Across the Hallway to Intel with Keith Lofstrom
Date: 1989-10-01
Alias: Walking Across the Hallway to Intel with Keith Lofstrom, Walking Across the Hallway to Intel with Keith Lofstrom, Crossing the Hallway to Intel
Category: Intel, Intel, BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon]], Origins
Participants: Randal Schwartz, Keith Lofstrom

  • Walking Across the Hallway to Intel with Keith Lofstrom

  • In late 1989, when the BiiN joint venture collapsed, management immediately let go of all outside contractors.

  • The Chance Hallway Encounter

    • BiiN shared an office building in Hillsboro, Oregon with a small division of Intel.
    • On the very day I was canned and heading out the door with my belongings, I ran into my friend Keith Lofstrom in the common corridor.
    • I told Keith that BiiN had just pulled the plug and let all the contractors go.
    • Without missing a beat, Keith smiled and said:
      "Hey, we're hiring!"

  • The Immediate Transition

    • Keith walked me over to the Intel side of the building.
    • I interviewed on the spot and was hired immediately, literally walking across the hallway to start work the very next week—transitioning from BiiN technical writing to system administration for Intel's elite iWarp supercomputing engineering team.
  • This serendipitous hallway conversation kicked off a four-year tenure contracting across Intel's Oregon campuses.
  • See Sysadmin on the iWarp Supercomputer Project and Bringing the Internet to Intel Oregon.

What links here

🔗BiiN 🔗 BiiN, the i960 XA, and the Hillsboro Airport Flying Spark 🔗Intel 🔗Keith Lofstrom 🔗 Sysadmin on the iWarp Supercomputer Project and Bringing the Internet to Intel Oregon
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.