Boca Corporate Center Campus (Boca Raton, Florida)

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Currently owned by the Blackstone Group, it is home to the call center for Applied Card Center. This place houses a number of other companies, like the BlueGreen Corporation, BocaCom, NTT/Verio, etc. It was formerly known as the "IBM Boca Raton Facility".

This was the birthplace and original home of the IBM Personal computer (PC, XT, AT and the PS/2 line of computers including the ThinkPad laptops). This was also the birthplace of the OS/2 operating system. The IBM Series/1, System 7, and some models of the IBM 360 computers were also produced here as was the Display Writer text processor and the 3280 workstation. IBM announced the closing of this facility in September 1996 and the site was vacated and put up for sale in 1997. Close to 2000 employees were relocated from this site to IBM's Austin, Texas development facilities. Other employees and the PC manufacturing were moved to IBM's facilities in North Carolina. At its peek in the early 1990s IBM employed about 9600 workers in the Boca Raton area.