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Ferranti prospered from the development effort as they adapted their new transistorized circuit design for a series of follow-on projects. Shortly after the Route Reference Computer was delivered, they were contacted by the [[Federal Reserve Bank]] to develop a similar system for check sorting that was very successful.<ref>Ball & Vardalas, pg. 243</ref> Ferranti later the same basic system as the basis of [[ReserVec]], a [[computer reservations system]] built for [[Trans Canada Airlines]] (today's [[Air Canada]]) that started full operation in October 1961, beating the more famous [[Sabre (computer system)|SABRE]]. The basic ReserVec design would later be generalized into the [[Ferranti-Packard 6000]] [[Mainframe computer|mainframe]] business computers, whose design became the basis for the [[ICT 1900 series]] of machines during the 1960s.<ref>Dornian, pg. 40</ref>

==See also==

* [[Transorma]]

* [[Multiple Position Letter Sorting Machine]]

==References==

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* John Vardalas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=S8DFZtmLziMC "The Computer Revolution in Canada: building national technological competence"], MIT Press, 2001, {{ISBN|0-262-22064-4}}

* Norman Ball and John Vardalas, "Ferranti-Packard: pioneers in Canadian electrical manufacturing", McGill-Queen's Press, 1994, {{ISBN|0-7735-0983-6}}

* David Boslaugh, [https://books.google.co.nzcom/books?id=Mi8MhzheOokC "When Computers Went to Sea"], Wiley, 2003, {{ISBN|0-471-47220-4}}

* Alan Dornian, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040925093915/http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~williams/History_web_site/World%20map%20first%20page/Canada/a2031.pdf "ReserVec: Trans-Canada Airlines' Computerized Reservation System"], ''IEEE Annals of the History of Computing'', Volume 16 Number 2 (1994), pp.&nbsp;31–42

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