PC to quantum, facts on Boca Raton IBM site, south of FAU in Florida

BOCA RATON — When you walk past the massive, brutalist concrete buildings of the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, it’s easy to see them as just another office park. 

But to anyone who knows tech history, this is hallowed ground. Decades before “Silicon Valley” became a household name, Boca Raton was the unlikely epicenter of a digital revolution. It’s where the personal computer was born and where the modern smartphone was first sketched out.