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OCR: 544 CHAPTER COMPUTERS IN CONTEXT Travel RAMON STOPPELENBURG LEFT his New York. Their chance meeting led to the develop home in the Netherlands with backpack digital ment of the Semi- Automatic Business Research camera laptop computer, and cell phone He left Environment -commonly known as SABRE. When behind the one thing most travelers would never be SABRE went online in 1964 became the first caught without -money! Instead, he set up Web Airlines e-commerce agents n system airport in the terminals world, to allowing automate American up to site called Let Me Stay For Day. Every few days 26,000 passenger reservation transactions per day Ramon updated his Web site with journal entry, picture or two, and his travel itinerary. After viewing Other airlines quickly followed suit and competing the ...