Silicon Valley Company Archive
The collection consists of 700+ boxes of materials donated by Silicon Valley companies to San José Public Library from 1986 to 1993. The archival boxes are now located in the California Room. Company boxes may include any of the following: Advertising proofs, Annual meeting notices, Annual and quarterly reports, Backgrounders, Brochures and flyers, Catalogs, Company histories, Employment information, Executive biographies and speeches, Financial analyst reports, Legal statements and opinions, Newsletters, Press releases and reprints, Photographs, Price lists, Product literature, Prospectuses, SEC-required forms, Shareholder letters, Technical papers and white papers.
- Orbit Semiconductor - Sunnyvale, CA
- Orchid Technology - Fremont, CA
- Orrox Technology - Santa Clara, CA
- Oximetrix, Inc. (Acquired by Abbott Laboratories)
- Palantir Corporation (Changed Name to Calera Recognition Systems, Inc., 1988) - Santa Clara, CA
- Paradigm Technology - San Jose, CA
- Pennstock - Sunnyvale, CA
- Performance Semiconductor Corporation - Sunnyvale, CA
- Perkin-Elmer Nelson Systems (aka PE Nelson) - Cupertino, CA
- Personal CAD Systems, Inc (Bought by CADEM, Inc., 1989) - San Jose, CA
- Philips Components Signetics (Formerly Signetics Corp.) - Sunnyvale, CA
- Pier Electronics, Inc. - Sunnyvale, CA
- Pizzatime Theater, Inc. (Out of business 1984) - Sunnyvale, CA
- Plantronics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA; San Jose, CA
- Plasmon Data Systems - Milpitas, CA
- Plexus Software, Inc. (Bought by Recognition Equipment 1989) - San Jose, CA; Dallas, TX
- Plus Development Corporation (Subsidiary of Quantum Corp.) - Milpitas, CA
- Polycold Systems, Inc. - San Rafael, CA
- Polymetrics, Inc. - San Jose, CA
- Power Integrations, Inc. - Mountain View, CA
- Power Ten, Inc. - Sunnyvale, CA
- Pragmatic Designs (Bought by Sage Enterprises; Name SAGE/PRAGMATIC Inc., 1989) - Sunnyvale, CA
- Precision Monolithics, Inc. (Bought by Analog Devices, 1990) - Santa Clara, CA
- Presentation Technologies, Inc. - Sunnyvale, CA