This is my daily journal recording the events, places and my observations during a business/pleasure trip around the world. I have visited most of the locations described here before, with the exception of Hong Kong. The business part of the trip consisted of training and sales calls with our Japanese distributor, then a week of customer training in India. The pleasure portion was two days in Hong Kong and one week in Nice, France. Although I have traveled quite a bit, this is the first time I have gone “around the world.” Hence the title of this trip report.
Continue reading “Around the World in … Part I: Portland, Toyko, Hong Kong, London”France Trip, 1978
I had been working at FPS for about six months when I was sent, with a team, to Paris, France to install an AP120B at Dassault Aviation. This was my first trip overseas, I was 27 years old. Unfortunately, being a lowly team member on my first trip overseas I did not write a trip report. Now 40 plus years later I am scanning old slides from the trip and trying to remember some of the stories from the trip.
Continue reading “France Trip, 1978”India Trip Report – 1989
MEMORANDUM
FROM: Robert Wallace DATE: October 6, 1989
TO: Jerry Peek
SUBJ: India Trip Report
CC: Larry W. Bob G. Tom M.
A Survivors Guide to India
Subtitle: “Don’t drink the water and don’t breath the air”
This is a trip report on the trip Jerry Peek and I took to India. The main purpose of the trip was to support Hinditron, conclude a sale, and sign a contract with Hinditron. This report covers the day to day activities with several embedded essays on topics of interest to anyone who might in a moment of weakness consider a trip to India.
Continue reading “India Trip Report – 1989”Germany Trip Report, June 1982
Title: Trip Report FPS DIS MTU
Cast of characters
FPS USA personnel:
Robert Wallace, Hero
Dan Gorton, Field Support Engineer
Dave Borer, S/W Applications Engineer
Israel – Trip report from 1983
Preface: This took place in December 1983. I had just turned 32.
Chapter 1
And the saints….
It started as a normal day, as normal as can be for a computer jock. I was lounging at my desk idly pondering the raindrops which glistened in the early morning light on the window. My feet were casually propped on my desk, which many would believe impossible because of the mass of printouts and pieces of computer hardware that permanently resided there. My fingertips were lightly poised on the keyboard resting in my lap. The whole posture was designed to convey the impression of work while providing the maximum rest potential.
Continue reading “Israel – Trip report from 1983”My first web site
I worked for Intel Corporation from June 1994 to June 1998 (approx.) I eventually came to my senses and left the company. When I first started working there I was in the Supercomputer Systems Division (SSD) and published this page which has been saved Jan. 9th 1997 by the Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970109235501/http://ssd.intel.com/