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

[Marc Weber]

I was actually just looking for one without success… I swear someone did a version a decade or two ago.
Best, Marc



> On Oct 16, 2015, at 13:46, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae at virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
> Someone ought to do an updated version of the famous Steinberg New Yorker cartoon Bill linked to, representing today's tech industry and centered on Silicon Valley. 
> 
> As Nathan Ensmenger's keynote at the SIGCIS workshop last weekend pointed out, that's an industry aggressively rewriting its past and seeking to pivot the rest of the world's concerns -- economic, policy, social -- around its mobile, app-based worldview. The tech view from Palo Alto circa the 2010s is not that dissimilar to the media industry's view from New York in the 1970s. 
> 
> --AMM
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> Andrew Meade McGee
> Corcoran Department of History
> University of Virginia
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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:28 PM, McMillan, William W <william.mcmillan at cuaa.edu <mailto:william.mcmillan at cuaa.edu>> wrote:
> Evan, you just need to understand geography a little better:
> 
> http://www.mappingthenation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Rumsey-Steinberg-New-Yorker-1976.jpg <http://www.mappingthenation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Rumsey-Steinberg-New-Yorker-1976.jpg>
> 
> - Bill
> 
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> From: Members [members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org <mailto:members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org>] on behalf of Evan Koblentz [evan at snarc.net <mailto:evan at snarc.net>]
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 3:26 PM
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> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim
> 
> 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 <http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php#photo-7>
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