[SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim

[Evan Koblentz]

NY's Metropolitan Transit Authority -- the people who runs the subways, 
trains, and buses -- hired a tour guide for Grand Central Station who's 
saying that the terminal's circa-1913 electromechanical signaling system 
is "the first electronic computer".

Who was the chief engineer, Shiva Ayyadurai?

This story is very unfortunately in Gothamist -- a very popular NYC 
site. I shudder to think how many people now accept it as fact.

http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php#photo-7