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Yes, Martin is now Lockheed-Martin. Other tech companies included IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Level3, EchoStar, DISH, and others.

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The 36 corridor between Denver and Boulder was home to a ton of storage tech startups in the first dotcom boom. There’s still a street called “Tape Drive”.

yeah! I used to work at that StorageTek location, before they sold to Sun and then Oracle.

Conoco bought the land like 10 years back and demolished the old offices for a "clean energy lab" IIRC , though that never happened and now Tape Drive (and Disk Drive, on the western side of the campus) just deadend into a large empty field.

The fact that those offices are gone feels like a weird message about tech, but i don't know what it is.

Way back when I was in grad school there was a fair bit of "tech" (a lot of it storage hardware) in the greater Denver area and the computer companies definitely pitched the skiing and general outdoor lifestyle as a reason to come work for them there.

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