RAMAC 305

past post in another thread:

has this history of airline online res system

from above:

As ATW's first issue was being prepared for its debut in 1964, another baby was born to the commercial aviation industry: The Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment went live on March 4, 1964. It was an unwieldy name, inevitably shortened to Sabre, and it indeed would prove to be a sharp-edged weapon. It also would revolutionize the travel industry.

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tail end of the above history talks about current status of various of the res. systems .. recent news on that front:

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I used to have several DASD "historical" URLs that were at the san jose plant webserver ... but they went 404 when the business was sold off.

and more current status:

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for a little different drift:

in the mid-90s we were asked to look at some of the applications in one of the large res. system. started with *routes* ... which accounted for something like a quarter of the processing load. they had list of ten impossible things that they weren't able to do. we came back two months later and demonstrated a new implementation, including doing all ten impossible things. this became an unresovable problem for them ... part of the reason for the ten impossible things was that there were certain manual infrastructure operations that involved several hundred people. in part, the new implementation was able to address all ten impossible things by automating all the manual operations (actually deploying the new implemetation would have resulted in a major organizational impact).

we then wanted to move on to *fares* ... which accounted for something like 40percent of the system load. however, after appearing to have botched *routes* (at least from an organizational perspective), there was no interest in letting us have a try at *fares*.

misc. past posts mentioning *routes* activity