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Word: computicket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Wearing Out the Insulation | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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