[shas3]

> relatively new to tech

- Tektronix (now acquired), founded in Portland in 1946 - Intel, opened their largest center outside Santa Clara in 1974 + lots of companies that have been acquired, etc.

It has been called the Silicon Forest at least since 1981 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Forest

[davidw]

You can find some tech stuff anywhere, but relatively speaking, there wasn't too much in Oregon until more recently.

I grew up in Eugene.