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Anyone who's skied for a while will recall the advent of SkiData, an Austrian company which revolutionised the issuing of ski passes in the 1970s. This led to the electronic pass, and an interesting cooperation with Swatch to produce watches that could act as ski passes and 'smart cards'.

More recently the name SkiData has sprung up in hundreds (maybe thousands) of carparks. Heathrow Airport is one of them - the name is on the barriers and ticket readers.

The company's about to celebrate its 30th anniversary:
http://www.skidata.com/News.148.0.html?&L=1&cHash=803c76e584&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35

Milestones in the company's history:
http://www.skidata.com/Milestones-1977-1989.152.0.html?&L=1

Handy idea, wasn't it?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

PS I know nothing about the patents that lie behind all this, but the Oyster Card in London - extremely simple to use but disguising an amazingly complex programming of all London's transport ticketing and barriers - seems to be based on identical concepts. I wonder if SkiData earned anything out of this, or whether relevant patents have now expired?
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

London's Oyster Card was extremely late in coming to the party. Definitely long after Hong Kong's Octopus Card (1997).


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Interesting that urban travel passes are named after fish. What do they have in Paris - a Carte Crevette?
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David Goldsmith wrote:
Interesting that urban travel passes are named after fish.


Oyster? Octopus? Fish? Biology not your subject then, David? Laughing
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Well, Cheshire have the highly imaginative "Cheshire Travelcard", and Nottingham have "Easy Rider".
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Pathetic! [cheers, veeeight]
The Cheshire cards clearly ought to be named after Cheshire cats

The fictional Cheshire cat, as it appeared in Lewis Carrol's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', illustrated by John Tenniel, published 1866. Acknowledgment: Wikipedia

As for the Nottingham Easy Rider, what a blatant rip-off

This did not happen in Nottingham.
Nottingham's transport operators deserve to be named after donkeys for this.
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