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Company Collapse
Not long after the introduction of the Chocolate Notebook, Knudsen’s Candy, after going through ownership changes, would no longer manufacturer it. Despite an extensive search, a new manufacturer that would produce the Chocolate Notebook at a profitable price for the Silicon Valley Confection Company was not found. The company that introduced Technology You Can Eat…
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Chocolate Notebook
The chocolate Year 2K Bug sales were sufficient enough to launch what was planned to be the first product from the Silicon Valley Confection Company: The Chocolate Motherboard. While the product was being developed, a box manufacturer suggested turning it into a simulated laptop computer. Knudsen’s Candy agreed to manufacture the new product. The Chocolate…
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Year 2K Bug
As 1998 started, the talk of computer problems caused by the upcoming millennium turned into talk of a Y2K bug: Y stood for year, and 2K represented 2000. Rich and Al kicked around some ideas until Al came up with another product: a chocolate Y2K bug. Rich created a prototype. The idea was presented to…
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Planned First Product
After incorporating Silicon Valley Confection Company, Al and Rich continued developing their first product idea: The Chocolate Motherboard. Molds were made to create sample chocolate chips and a prototype cardboard motherboard was made to fit into a candy box. A manual was written and illustrated to explain the proper way to deal with the chips.…
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Company Start-Up
In 1997, two friends, Rich Yacco and Al Abrahams, came up with the idea for an unusual product: a computer chip made out of chocolate. Al and Rich had worked together in a video production company a few years earlier. Their “chocolate chip” idea grew into the concept of a chocolate motherboard: a simulated computer…
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Why SVC2.com?
After Silicon Valley Confection Company was incorporated in California, the founders decided on the following logo: The use of SVC2 with a superscript 2, instead of SVCC, was to give the logo a more “high tech” appearance. The website domain SVC2.com was acquired in 1997 and used until the corporation dissolved in 2004.
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Remembering Al Abrahams
Al Abrahams co-founded the Silicon Valley Confection Company with Rich Yacco. Al served as CEO and came up with the idea for a chocolate Y2K bug. Unfortunately, Al passed away on January 17, 2020 in Bay Shore, New York. Having spent much of his life on the East Coast, that is where Al returned after…
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The End
The Chocolate Notebook had a slow, steady growth of sales, but when Knudsen’s Candy was no longer able to manufacture it, Silicon Valley Confection Company could not find another company that could do it for a reasonable cost. Unfortunately, that meant the company had to sell off its remaining assets and shutdown.
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Into Tomorrow Radio Show featuring the Chocolate Notebook
In December 2001 one of the the Silicon Valley Confection Company investors sent a Chocolate Notebook to the Into Tomorrow radio show. It got a great reaction! Press the play button above to hear the broadcast.
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2001-2004 Notebook Customization and Sales
The web pages below show how and where people were able to buy a Chocolate Notebook, and how to customize the screen. Click on an image to zoom in.