Very true, cousin worked there in early 80's, probably not best source, but was first that jumped out and common knowledge amongst those old enough and into tech at the time to remember.
Was the aspect how they engaged with government bureaucracy and managed to in effect define a work culture that is so far removed from governmental bureaucracy, that you wonder what the early days was like.
>In the mid 1990s, . . . from a place that would come to be known as Silicon Valley
In the mid 1990s the name Silicon Valley had been used in mainstream media for at least a dozen years.