Life in EI I.T. - An Illustrated History

I'll tidy this up over time, put here's a wonderful collection of images ranging from the sublime to the kind of stuff Manus Sinistra would have loved to have had available while it was still in business.




Only an Aer Sceala headline writer could have got this caption so right given who the first customer of the new hangar was.







When you were lucky enough to come across a PNR with a naughty record locator or something that would tickle our teenage sense of humour, they would invariably end up pinned to programmers' partitions. This allotment for Fuchs Travel was a great example of the genre.




The Red Caps who reported the reasons for delays also had tongues firmly in cheeks at times.


A lot of system documentation was handwritten back before the invention of fancy programs like Visio. One eagle-eyed DCS programmer couldn't help notice the similarity between 03-YLB flowcharts and the townplan of Swindon.























It was very clear where the mood of Imbus sided in terms of how Saddam would make out as the deadline loomed before Desert Shield became Desert Storm.





Software Change Control was an important role, as this very professional memo from the head of Coverage demonstrated in response to a series of fallbacks from one overly eager developer.






And long before Dos Equis launched their "Most Interesting Man in the World" campaign, we had our own version.


 



The official Pricing System Specifications left one scratching one's head at times. In the words of Dave Barry, "I'm not making this up".