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Several suppliers of computer services were also in trouble. Los Angeles-based Computer Sciences Corp. discontinued Computicket, a system that sold theater and sports tickets at terminals linked to a central computer. Computicket had been losing clients to a rival service, Ticketron. At the same time, Manhattan's Computer Applications, Inc. scrapped Speedata, a computerized system for reporting grocery sales and prices. The company simply could net raise the $2,000,000 more needed to make the system profitable...
...companies-Ticket Reservation Systems, Inc., of New York, and Computicket Corp., a subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corp. of Los Angeles-are currently fighting for a potentially lucrative ticket market with much the same type of operation. Participating entertainment enterprises like theaters and sports arenas are linked by sales outlets in such spots as railroad stations, travel agencies, department stores and even supermarkets. At most of those locations, buyers tell a sales clerk what event they want to see and when. By pushing buttons on a console, the clerk queries a regional computer's "memory bank" and gets an instant...
...million annual sales, as Jones devised new programs and uses for the computers that other companies were making. One Computer Sciences innovation is Computax, an income tax program that speeds and eases the work for accountants doing corporate or personal tax returns. Another, about to be introduced, is Computicket which will link every kind of entertainment from baseball to ballet to local outlets like supermarkets and enable shoppers not only to pick the seat they want in a matter of seconds but to receive a computerized ticket as well. With only 1% of U.S. computers so far linked...
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