In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:15:42 -0500, micky
wrote:


No it was a joke.

Okay. Thanks for addressing the (implied, for that matter) question.

The seats were assigned on picture of the seats behind the counter and
they just checked them off. Computers (electro mechanical) were

I forgot to say that this sounds more believable. Otherwise people who
didn't even have tickets could take the seats they wanted, just in case
they bought a ticket. Etc.

already creeping into airline booking, replacing a manual card systems
and such by the early 50s but by 1960 IBM was selling the SABRE
system. (an offshoot of a DoD project). At that point reservations
were all on the computer. By the 80s they had dial up systems for
people with computers and when the internet showed up it was what it
is now.