Ticketron (1965 - 1991)

a mainframe in a hotel basement and a terminal in a record shop meant you could buy one named seat in a stadium two states away, and the seat could not be sold twice. that was 1968, thirty years before most people had a modem. control data ran it for two decades and by 1990 it had seven hundred and fifty outlets against a competitor with more. carlyle bought the assets and passed them to…