ReserVec was a computerized reservation system developed by Ferranti Canada for Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA, today's Air Canada) in the late 1950s. It...
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system at about this time. Another brush with success came in 1959 with the ReserVec on-line reservation system developed for Trans-Canada Air Lines. This product...
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computer in place of the unreliable tube-based Mark I. The resulting system, ReserVec, started operation in 1962, and took over all booking operations in January...
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Vanguard in scheduled passenger service. In 1953 with the development of ReserVec (originally called Gemini), TCA became the first airline in the world to...
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was the little-known Trans-Canada Air Lines (today's Air Canada) system, ReserVec developed by Ferranti Canada . It started to be delivered in April 1961...
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maintenance base would later also move east. With the development of the ReserVec in 1953, TCA became the first airline in the world to use a computer reservation...
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their recent successes with their "Gemini" design, which was used in their ReserVec system. On November 2 the Bracknell team decided to adopt the Gemini circuitry...
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transistorizing it in the process. The system eventually led to both ReserVec and the Ferranti-Packard 6000 mainframe. Sources have inflated the number...
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Canadian Post Office. The developmental series eventually culminated in ReserVec. ReserVec was the first computerized reservation system to enter service when...
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Example record locators are RMT33W, KZVGX5, IIRCYC. In the past, the Reservec 2 system had eight character record locators in the form xxnnnnxx where...
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was Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA). In 1961 Ferranti-Packard developed the ReserVec computer reservation system for TCA (now Air Canada). This formed the basis...
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of the St. Lawrence Seaway, various development of the groundbreaking ReserVec system with Ferranti Canada for Trans Canada Airlines, and even rental...
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related to FP6000 (Ferranti-Packard 6000, which became the ICL 1900), ReserVec, Back Up Interceptor Control (BUIC) for the United States Military, as...
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very successful. Ferranti later the same basic system as the basis of ReserVec, a computer reservations system built for Trans Canada Airlines (today's...
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to the little-known Trans-Canada Air Lines (today's Air Canada) system, ReserVec. McKenney, pg. 100 McKenney, pg. 102 Elmer, pg. 62 McKenney, pg. 104 "Special...
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of Toronto developed the system design for the Gemini (later renamed Reservec) system, but seems to have lost the bid for the later programming contract...
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for use with the world's first computerised airline reservation system, ReserVec for Air Canada. During the 1960s Taylor worked on vehicle detection for...
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related to FP6000 (Ferranti-Packard 6000, which became the ICL 1900), ReserVec, Back Up Interceptor Control (BUIC) for the United States Military, as...
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