Re: [galeon] Additional IOOS-DMAC meeting highlight

Uh, speak for yourself, sirrah! I spent more years than I care to think learning to write code... on an 029. I wrote my first fortran for an IBM 1401. I can relate to Cyber70's, RCA Spectra's, a variety of Crays, a Vax or two, several Data General systems, including the Eclipse (my first laptop was a Data General DG1), Amdahl 470's, and of late, Beowulf clusters, SP2's, Power5's (including the Power5+) and Power6's. 

But I don't think this was designed to demonstrate age...

gerry

Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
Of course, punch cards and punch card reading machines are for history buffs - none of us ever used them!!!! 


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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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