Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- While watching the “Today Show” one
morning in 1967 from his Southern California home, Roy Bellman
felt his knees buckle. The program was offering remote coverage
from the iconic Gimbels department store in New York’s Herald
Square. There, a reporter breathlessly introduced the “world’s
first computerized ticketing system.”
For Bellman, a manager at Computer Sciences Corp., it was
as though the floor had dropped out beneath him. He could barely
process the images on the flickering screen because, up until
that moment, he had thought that his company -- not the one
featured on the “Today Show” -- was developing the world’s first
computerized ticketing system.
