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siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) writes:

>Earthquake News from  Silicon Valley:

>damage from the earthquake. The exceptions are Apple and Ashton-Tate; Apple's
>DeAnza 3 (hardware R&D) was condemned, Ashton-Tate sustained "major building
>damage" (extend unknown) at their Mac development headquarters.

I am not an official spokesperson for Ashton-Tate, I just work there.  The
following is information based on my personal observations and is not to 
be considered official Ashton-Tate released information.  (Don't lawyers have
enough to do without making us all too paranoid to talk to each other?)

Well, I was in the Ashton-Tate building when it happened, and I would have 
thought that we were about to roll down the hill.  The building did what it
was supposed to do, most of the cracks define pieces of drywall that moved
rather than broke.  Air conditioning pipes broke on the roof, and leaked water
in several areas.  I work on the second floor, and as a writer am part pack-
rat.  Three years of manual drafts and technial notes left their places on
my shelves and covered the floor (about a foot thick.)  The top of one of
my windows broke, but my Macs and Laserwriter came through like champs, as
did the Supermac hard disks, all of which were turned on.  The third floor
was even more of a mess, bookshelves down, big file cabinets down, people
down.  Only one minor injury that I know of and that is another testament
to the building.

In general, the building lost about 5 to 10 percent of its glass, the air
conditioners (big mothers) moved and will have to be fixed, much taping and
painting of drywall, acoustical roofing to be replaced in many areas, nerves
and composure to reestablish, and this awful stain in my pants to take care
of!

We were able to reenter the building on Thursday (after the inspections) and
our telephone support was the first area to go back into operation.  I'm 
going in to start cleaning up my office this morning.  This all follows 
several days of internal Ashton-Tate programs to help the survivors in 
Puerto Rico.  Karma.


-- 
Richard A. Bretschneider              These are my words.  My employer's
Ric Bret                              words are often spoken in haste, and
RAB                                   rarely resemble my compassionate prose.