From: wb8foz@panix.com   
      
   hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:   
      
   >One thing amazing--for its day--about airline reservation   
   >systems in 1969 was that they were interconnected.  You could   
   >reserve one direction of your trip on Eastern, and the   
   >other direction of your trip on National, for instance.   
      
   The airlines were the first folks to engage in such datasharing.   
   There was even an unASCII protocol for such; it was ?PIDS? or   
   such; I think it was six bits. Decades later, I saw it on a   
   RS-232 test set and was intrigued...   
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