BBC Computer Literacy Project

Micro Live 3: Episode 19 (13x19)

Air date: Mar 21, 1987

If you book an airline ticket you're likely to be in the hands of a computer until you pick up your luggage at the other end. Micro Live investigates the system. Also, a look at how current computer models, if they had existed, could have been used to speed up decisions during the 1967 Torrey Canyon oil spill.