Artifact Details

Title

Garrow, Bob oral history

Catalog Number

102717906

Type

Document

Description

Bob Garrow Sr. is a senior executive in the Silicon Valley with an illustrious history. He was born in 1942 in Antioch, California and grew up in Stockton, graduated with a BSEE from U.C. Berkeley in 1965. He worked for Lockheed, Intel before co-founding Convergent Technologies. He joined Sun Microsystems in 1986 as VP and Manager of the Workstation Division. He left Sun after four years of extreme growth as VP of the Worldwide Manufacturing and he tried retirement, which he didn't like. He then co-founded Liquid Computing in Ottawa in 2003. He has been a consultant ever since and is still active in the industry.

Date

2019-08-13

Contributor

Elliot, Dane, Interviewer
Garrow, Bob, Interviewee
Kapoor, Uday, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA

Extent

39 p.

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Subject

Microprocessor; Lockheed; Intel; Sun Microsystems; liquid computing; Berkeley; UCLA; Santa Clara University; 4004; Noyce, Robert (Bob); Gelbach, Ed; Markkula, Mike; Smith, Hank; Davidow, Bill; Lally, Jim; McNealy, Scott; Doerr, John; Intellec; MDS-800; SDK-80; NGEN modular workstation; Sunray RISC

Collection Title

CHM Oral History Collection

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X9138.2020

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