I knew a lot of the programmers that worked on Taarsan II Claret, and they had extremely good senses of humour for their genre.
I was on the 1st trainers course working 1700 to 0100 as they couldnt run the 494 and 1182 together at peak load times. It was interesting to say the least as we were still picking up errors and exceptions that hadnt been found. After 4 nights everyone paired off and did something totally primal with a member of the opposite sex just to retain some semblance of normality. It was very hard work, but the end system once it was switched on was a beaut. The mainframe is still around and may still be in use for QF Hols. Ut is definitely still in use with USAS checkin for the time being anyway.
You can keep your cheap and nasty IPARS systems for mine.
Cathay and Dragon and a host of Chinese carriers seem to be the only ones still delivering the signature 5 alpha numeric relocs these days.
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EWL