Hash Patel

Hi big Indian
How is the happy hunting grounds? We miss you and think of you often.

let’s start another company. Do you want to invest? How about $100,000 for 5%?

Signal me.

Love
Bob

Shyamal,

Good to hear from you. I know Hash meant a lot to you as he did to us all. Feel free to go to the website I did for him www.hashpatel.com and contribute to his legacy. His story is an inspiriation to us all and I tried to get him to contribute to the early years in his last year so that generations of kids from India could have the hope of a better life like one of their own did. Maybe you can fill in some of that because he never really talked about his leaving India for the States and his Education in Missouri and meeting Diane. The kids of India could use a guide book on how to improve their situation and discover the possibilities. You yourself are cut from that cloth as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.

I saw him in the weeks before his passing and he said he had lead a full life and had nothing to regret and even though his life was being cut short at 63 he felt he had done it all and you and I and the rest of his brothers know how true that statement was. I was there for the best of times and also for the worst of times but in the end he went out like a true champion that I am proud I knew him.

I have been to India twice since Hash’s passing. I went to Chennai for a hip resurfacing operation that wasn’t being performed in the USA hospitals and I was discovered to have a heart problem prior to surgery and they performed a triple heart bypass on me last March. I returned in October after heart recovery to finally have the hip operation done and today I am pain free and feel good as new. I know Hash was watching over me and if it wasn’t for my friendship with him and an understanding of the Indian people I would not have felt so secure and trusting to have a surgery performed over there. That surgery saved my life as I was a walking heart attach without any signs of the artery blockages.

I never went to India with Hash when he was alive as many times as we talked about going over there when his father was alive and seeing Dad. I did get to take him to Ireland to see where my roots came from and he loved it.

Here’s to Hash and a man that loved life to the fullest and an inspiration to us all.

Be one with the Dali…..
Paul

Paul, thanks for setting up this site. It confirmed my worst suspicions.

I think that you and I may have met at some watering hole or the other with Hash. I met Hash when I came to the Valley in 1981. He was an investor, and the supplier of hard to find chips to Forward Technology, a company that I co-founded. Later, Hash recruited me to Tasvir, a mechanical CAD company located in Mountain View. Over the years Hash and I would talk over the phone, and lunch together a couple of times a year.

My recent memories are of Hash traveling back and forth to India to try to establish a Vegas-like community in India, with Indian government support. As things were to progress, we would be working together.

In early / mid 2005, I received a call from Hash where he explained that he had esphogal cancer, and that he was not satisfied with the alternatives he was being offered. I put him in touch with a friend who has a company exploring cancer treatments based upon the patient’s genetics. Although Hash’s cancer was not the type that Simon studied, Simon attends cancer conferences all over the world, and knows who is doing what in the cancer arena.

After some research, Simon found this treatment in Oakland, which Hash felt was beneficial at first. Later, though, he told me that it was not working, and that the prognosis was not good. He was not interested in pursuing the Chemo path more than he had to. He later told me that he was off to China for a new, allegedly successful treatment, and that in a show of optomism has booked he and his wife for a round the world cruise in the early 2006 time frame.

That was the last time we spoke. After some time, in mid 2006 I left a voice mail, and followed up a couple of times thereafter, so that I suspected that things may not have worked out.

Hash was an amazing person, and a good friend.

CHUCK,

Thanks for the contribution and I’m sure we hoisted a few in the valley watering holes with Hash. i didn’t realize you were involved with him in his “Dream City” project for India. Hash had always talked of taking me to India “to meet Dad” when his father was alive. The closest we ever got was a trip to Ireland when Bena’s son was being married in London. After the cermony he and I grabed a plane for Dublin and a trip back to my irish roots. We spent a week kissing the Blarney Stone and following the Bacardi Promo Bus around the island. Hash actually won a Bacardi Levi jacket in a dance contest in Limerick and of course offered it to his dancing partner rather than bringing it back to the states as a trophy.

Hash was family and I still regrete not getting to his India with him while he was alive. But my meeting Hash was meant to be because if it were not for our friendship over the years and his introducing me to the Indian community I would not have felt comfortable earlier this year in traveling to Chennai India for a Hip resurfacing operation that wasn’t being practiced here in the states. Before the operation the Indian doctors checked my heart because of the high blood pressure I was taking medication for and found that I had artery blockages that required a triple bypass. I was a walking heart attack waiting to happen with no symptoms of chest pain or breathing issues and they found it and cured it with a bypass operation. Hash would say it was meant to be… Even from the grave he continues to watch over me and October 3rd I return to Chennai to get my hip repaired with a healthy heart this time. I’ll be in Hash’s homeland for the first anniversery of his passing last October and I plan to hoist a few Kingfishers in his memory. “Here’s to those the do, and Here’s to those that don’t, and Here’s to those that will, and Here’s to those that won’t. And here’s to those that do and don’t and will and won’t and Here’s to Hash.

Feel free to communicate more of your Hash stories as this website should be an education, to all that come here, on how anything is possible in life as we can see from Hash’s life story and most important your life should be full of adventure and fun for as long as we live.

COMMENTS FROM: PAUL TERRELL

From: “pterrell” <pterrell@hotmail.com>
To: “Hash1 Patel” <patel_hash@hotmail.com>
Subject: Poverty Sucks
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:36:22 -0800
Hash,
Don’t know if you got my previous email about us doing a http://www.hashpatel.com/ website or not but I’ve asked Doug to look into the easiest way to do something like this and I have sent an email to Bob to get his ideas.

I was thinking last night after I sent you the email and my mind was thinking of the early days that you really did make a difference in Silicon Valley. I was remembering the night you and I met at Saint James Infermery on Moffet Blvd. for cocktails and you were telling me about an idea you had for a reprogramable game cartridge that would be just the thing for a video game market that was about to explode. That night in that bar you convinced me that I should leave Exidy and found Romox with you along with Dan Izumi and Art Carlos. You were the seed and the brains behind Romox and everything that it represented. My name was on the patent for the reprogrammable cartridge because I was the CEO and you were the silent partner and investor but it was your idea. I may have done the business plan and the execution of the start up but you were the genius behind the trojan horse marketing of reprogamable cartridges to seed the marketplace of our patent protected game and computer cartridges before introducing our programing terminal that would sit in places like KMart and 7 Eleven stores was brilliant, and the idea of a software vending machine was born with electronic distribution of Software to every street corner. Today we do it on the Internet.

Hash, This is what I am talking about. I can only wonder how many people you touched in Silicon Valley that went on to greatness or even if it wasn’t greatness it was a ride of a lifetime. I know my time spent with you is worthy of many chapters and you have Glen and Wayne and Bob and Schemal and Brian Job and God only knows how many others…. I want to reflect on High Roller Suites and throwing dollar bills to street people in San Fran to Champane Brunches on Santa Cruz pier… Crashing the Bing Crosby Pro Am and Staying in the suite at the Lodge of Pebbel Beach with VIP status for 3 guys that didn’t even have a tooth brush. These are the things in life that make it worth while and soooo much fun. Regrets, I have none… I think thats how Sinatra’s song goes…
We would be robbing the world of one of the greatest shows on earth not to tell this one….
I sent the following to Bob to give him an idea of what I was thinking…
Let me know what you think… I think you would enjoy doing it and it gives us all some positive stuff to think about in these days of uncertainty.

Bob,

Bob, (Ducey)

Just a thought…. why don’t we do a story about Hash… With Hash…. About what we know about Hash… And he can eapand on it with all the other experiences he has had with others.
About a friend, a confidant, a supporter, and a real hell raiser… About the time I taught him to snow ski in Tahoe or he taught me how to play Black Jack, and the fun he had at the Scupper, Walkers Wagon Wheel, and basically being the Wheeler/Dealer of Silicon Valley. I think we need to get him to focus on that and really put it down in writing. You have stories and pictures of you and Hash and I have stories and pictures, and Hash himself had a life beyond us with his Indian Community and friends and associates.
I want the story of Hash Patel to be told…. What was it like leaving India to go to America in those days and go to university in the mid west and meet Diane and graduate as an electrical engineer and be in on the transition of vacumn tubes to transistors and solid state devices and be hired by Harris Semiconductor and go to England to give parpers on technology, and go to National Semiconductor and be the Scamp Microprocessor guy with a computer in a book, and start his own chip brokerage company leaving the security of a big company behind while he was married with children and his grass roots financing for his friends and associates that took Bob Ducey to Taiwan to sell telephones in TV Guide and now Bob Ducey sells voip telephones in much the same way to the masses, and his first venture capital deal in the valley before they knew what venture capital was and all the deals to follow with Romox and ComputerMania with me and the CAD company (Tasvir) with Schmal and Chuck…. And what about that chip brokerage company IMPEX…. cutting edge stuff at the time… His buddy in Chicago and Glen (Holigraphic) and the Indian real estate guy Gobi in the east bay and ABOVE ALL…. How he did it….. With Style…. Party Down…

Hash Patel always a friend… and to some a brother…

COMMENTS FROM: PAUL TERRELL

From: “pterrell” <pterrell@hotmail.com>
To: “Hash1 Patel” <patel_hash@hotmail.com>
Subject: Poverty Sucks
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:36:22 -0800
Hash,
Don’t know if you got my previous email about us doing a http://www.hashpatel.com/ website or not but I’ve asked Doug to look into the easiest way to do something like this and I have sent an email to Bob to get his ideas.

I was thinking last night after I sent you the email and my mind was thinking of the early days that you really did make a difference in Silicon Valley. I was remembering the night you and I met at Saint James Infermery on Moffet Blvd. for cocktails and you were telling me about an idea you had for a reprogramable game cartridge that would be just the thing for a video game market that was about to explode. That night in that bar you convinced me that I should leave Exidy and found Romox with you along with Dan Izumi and Art Carlos. You were the seed and the brains behind Romox and everything that it represented. My name was on the patent for the reprogrammable cartridge because I was the CEO and you were the silent partner and investor but it was your idea. I may have done the business plan and the execution of the start up but you were the genius behind the trojan horse marketing of reprogamable cartridges to seed the marketplace of our patent protected game and computer cartridges before introducing our programing terminal that would sit in places like KMart and 7 Eleven stores was brilliant, and the idea of a software vending machine was born with electronic distribution of Software to every street corner. Today we do it on the Internet.

Hash, This is what I am talking about. I can only wonder how many people you touched in Silicon Valley that went on to greatness or even if it wasn’t greatness it was a ride of a lifetime. I know my time spent with you is worthy of many chapters and you have Glen and Wayne and Bob and Schemal and Brian Job and God only knows how many others…. I want to reflect on High Roller Suites and throwing dollar bills to street people in San Fran to Champane Brunches on Santa Cruz pier… Crashing the Bing Crosby Pro Am and Staying in the suite at the Lodge of Pebbel Beach with VIP status for 3 guys that didn’t even have a tooth brush. These are the things in life that make it worth while and soooo much fun. Regrets, I have none… I think thats how Sinatra’s song goes…
We would be robbing the world of one of the greatest shows on earth not to tell this one….
I sent the following to Bob to give him an idea of what I was thinking…
Let me know what you think… I think you would enjoy doing it and it gives us all some positive stuff to think about in these days of uncertainty.

Bob,

Bob, (Ducey)

Just a thought…. why don’t we do a story about Hash… With Hash…. About what we know about Hash… And he can eapand on it with all the other experiences he has had with others.
About a friend, a confidant, a supporter, and a real hell raiser… About the time I taught him to snow ski in Tahoe or he taught me how to play Black Jack, and the fun he had at the Scupper, Walkers Wagon Wheel, and basically being the Wheeler/Dealer of Silicon Valley. I think we need to get him to focus on that and really put it down in writing. You have stories and pictures of you and Hash and I have stories and pictures, and Hash himself had a life beyond us with his Indian Community and friends and associates.
I want the story of Hash Patel to be told…. What was it like leaving India to go to America in those days and go to university in the mid west and meet Diane and graduate as an electrical engineer and be in on the transition of vacumn tubes to transistors and solid state devices and be hired by Harris Semiconductor and go to England to give parpers on technology, and go to National Semiconductor and be the Scamp Microprocessor guy with a computer in a book, and start his own chip brokerage company leaving the security of a big company behind while he was married with children and his grass roots financing for his friends and associates that took Bob Ducey to Taiwan to sell telephones in TV Guide and now Bob Ducey sells voip telephones in much the same way to the masses, and his first venture capital deal in the valley before they knew what venture capital was and all the deals to follow with Romox and ComputerMania with me and the CAD company (Tasvir) with Schmal and Chuck…. And what about that chip brokerage company IMPEX…. cutting edge stuff at the time… His buddy in Chicago and Glen (Holigraphic) and the Indian real estate guy Gobi in the east bay and ABOVE ALL…. How he did it….. With Style…. Party Down…

Hash Patel always a friend… and to some a brother…

Original Message —–
From: “hasmukh patel” < hashp@hotmail.com >
To: <pterrell@hotmail.com> Paul & Bob ” BRO…BRO…”
Thanks for such a kind email, Yes we have had a great ride and yes I have been for-front of many technology starting from initial RAM, Mechanically programable ROM aka PROM, to many things we take for granted such as Electronics lock, electronics pinball, electronics GAS PUMP and Taximeter etc etc. ALL with original SC/MP not to mention largest selling computer at a time ” KIT & KABOODLE ” that created a MICRO CONTROLLER Industry which is as big or larger than microprocessor industry today ?? I got a patent in GATE Array Technology and Multi layer metallization before silicon valley even mentioned it. And remember BOB my thought , If you want to win the Battel then either change the generals OR change the battle ground !! Boys, I am going to be A OK, and am never to look for a glory to massage my ego, what EGO ?? I know there is in me but could rarely find it !! Just let us have some fun and communicate since I will be unable to travel and party for next 3 – 4 months.
Love you all

Hash From: “pterrell” <pterrell@hotmail.com>
To: “Hash1 Patel” <patel_hash@hotmail.com>,”hasmukh patel”
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:00:16 -0800
Hash,
Sorry it has taken me a month to get the format for what I wanted to do for your website but I think I finally have it. I’ve been working with Doug and he has created a development site that will be hashpatel.com when we get the server set up. In the mean time everyone can go to this link and start.
www.hashpatel.com Click on it and you will see what I had in mind. I started off on some of the chapters and of course there are many more chapters and text that can be added by friends and family who know the other Hash. With the ATT upon us I remembered the weekend we spent there with Bob and I spent half a day writing the story only to have it disappear when I got disconnected from the internet. Moral of that story is do your writing in Word and then copy and paste the text into the internet document.
Haven’t figured out how to put pictures into the text yet but doug is working on that.
I wanted to get this much out to you so you could start in… Even though this is a community project you are a big source of the information.
Let me know what you think.
Love ya,
Bro