Airline Industry Question

No one in the industry pre-computers?

No Elders in the industry way back then?

I want to know how they kept track of your bank account with no computers.

They didn't OP. You couldn't make reservations to airlines back then, it was first come-first serve. Cash only. It was complete chaos. Of course, this was during the Spanish-American war when it was hard to get a plane ticket.

Telex over the phone lines and huge log books..automation came in around 1960. See link for info

That is an interesting link, R5. Thanks.

R5 here. I spent an entire 36 year career in this milieu, Quite fascinating once you're able to paw around the guts of these systems.

OP, are you that troll who was obsessed about how people in covered wagons crossed the country without road signs and maps?

How did people talk on the phone before 1850?

They used small rocks to keep count. Ten small rock = a small stick. 10 small sticks = a shinny red stone. etc. etc. It was sometimes confusing but it mostly worked. Sometimes you could trade sex for a ticket or an upgrade. I was young and cute then and sort of slutty and I used to fly a lot (haha) One time I sat on the pilots lap for the entire trip. He was annoying and I never did that again. I just paid with shinny red stones.

[quote]How did people talk on the phone before 1850?

Language really wasn't developed then. People just grunted and hopped around and pointed at things. A few basic words were starting to emerge like "me wantum sexum"

They used the Reserviser. "Punch cards digested by a battery of business machines"

American Airlines flight #1: Idlewild to Los Angeles, non-stop on a Douglas DC-7 Mercury Flagship, 1957.

[quote]are you the nice person who was obsessed about how covered wagons crossed the country without road signs and maps?

No, not me, but this is certainly a valid question. Also where were the restrooms? Surely people in the dark ages needed to poop and pee?

[quote]They used the Reserviser. "Punch cards digested by a battery of business machines" American Airlines flight #1: Idlewild to Los Angeles, non-stop on a Douglas DC-7 Mercury Flagship, 1957.

I remember this movie. I think it was called 2001: A Space Odyssey. Thanks for the walk down memory lane !!!

R13 Fun fact: people used to pee in the halls of Versailles. It smelled like pee all the time.

r15 - this is fun !!! Where did they poop ???

Have you ever heard of a ledger?

Heath Ledger was really dreamy ...

What is all that funny writing r17. Did you take advanced algebra?

American Airlines had the first reservation system back in the early 1950s.

It was called American Airlines Sabre system.

Look it up on wikipedia. I learned about it in the 1960s when I was working on computers.

If you look it up (and/or scroll up to two earlier posts) you'll see that American Airlines used a system called the Magnetronic Reservisor in the 1950's and introduced the Sabre system in 1960.

Ugh bang rocks together and make blpblpblp sounds like airplane. Ugh no get tickets. Ugh sad.

"For when I have found, not only in mine own poor confused cottage, but even in the goodliest and stateliest palaces of this realm, notwithstanding all our provisions of vaults, of sluices, of grates, of pains of poor folks in sweeping and scouring, yet still this same whoreson saucy stink" - Sir John Harrington, godson of Elizabeth I.

I bet you could really fuck a guy ass deep, get some thrusting going, in those planes' big cans.

You are right, R21. I mixed the two systems. American had the first computer system, but it wasnt called Sabre. That came later.

People were white and rich, so it was pretty damn easy.

Flying was for the rich and for business; common swine weren't dragging their kids through airports and on to planes like they do now.

R15 Reddit discussion linked.

How did porn stars film flight attendants sucking them off in bathrooms before iPhones?

R29 Super 8

They would commemorate it with a daguerrotype.