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India Four Two
I was reminiscing the other day with an equally ancient friend about the old IATA hand -written "carbon" tickets. Anyone remember those?
Round about 1974/75 I was involved in the training for a big Engineering IT project at BA. In order to have sufficient staff trained on it before it went live, a wizened old IT guy who lived in a little hut on the BOAC side was tasked with building a simulator that emulated the user screens.
On my visits to see him, he would proudly show me another project he was working on - a prototype ticket printer - which I thought at the time was extremely cool.