Unfortunately for IT history buffs, I left the brightest highlight out of
my earlier note about the IOOS - DMAC Steering Team meetings. Somehow I
forgot to mention having dinner at the Sea Catch restaurant in the Canal
Square Building which historians recognize as "the birthplace of the
original computer." In the late 19th century, Herman Hollerith converted
the structure into a factory for manufacturing & printing punched card
tabulating machines. After a couple mergers, this became the International
Business Machines Corporation in 1924.
For more historical details and the menu:
http://www.seacatchrestaurant.com/history/<http://www.seacatchrestaurant.com/history/>
-- Ben
