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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>
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