Category: Company Milestones

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.