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IBM Building 025 Multi-cache

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Hidden : 6/24/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Two part multi-cache. Read some history about this site, collect some information, and find the cache.

The posted coordinates point you to some historical technology and architechural displays about the IBM Building 025 and campus that was once here. Read about it to collect some information that will lead you to the final cache, which is a short walk away.

Number of interconnected single-story wings Building 025 had = A

Number of acres at this former Cottle Road campus in the early 1950’s = 2B0

Number of letters in the last name of the “father of the disk drive” = C

Number of earthtone colors were used to make the geometric tiled murals = D. Examples of these murals on the exterior walls of the Hitachi (formerly IBM) campus can be seen from near the Ramac Park parking lot at N37° 14.984' W121° 47.951', a short distance from here.

Year IBM established its first West Coast laboratory = X9YZ. E = X+Y+Z

[Number of letters in the last name of the Architect] minus [the number of letters in the last name of the Landscape Architect] = F

Year the Tile Muralist was born = 19G9

Number of IBM employees who started the IBM Card Manufacturing Plant Number 5 in San Jose in 1943 = H3

The final cache is located approximately 0.15 miles away at N 37° 1A.BCD’ W 121° 4E.FGH’
Checksum = A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H = 30.

The cache is in a camo covered 4" x 4" x 2" container. It contains a trophy for FTF, trading items, logsheet, Geocache note, and pen.




Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)