Of course, punch cards and punch card reading machines are for history
buffs - none of us ever used them!!!!
-Roy
On May 10, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Ben Domenico wrote:
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/
-- Ben
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