Title :
Getting Sabre off the ground
Abstract :
The Sabre system was developed by IBM in the 1960s to handle reservations and seat inventory for American Airlines. System specification requirements included an unprecedented number of transactions, such as handling 83,000 daily phone calls. This look back at the project´s history highlights system problems and achievements.
Keywords :
history; reservation computer systems; travel industry; American Airlines; IBM Sabre system; daily phone call handling; history; reservations; seat inventory; specification requirements; transactions; Application software; Battery powered vehicles; Costs; History; Information retrieval; Marketing and sales; Real time systems; Telephony; Teleprinting; Wheelchairs;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2002.1114868
