This paper, written by Joachim Brandt and Georges Chrétien, was presented at the Symposium on Computer Communications Networks and Teletraffic, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, April 4-6, 1972.
In this paper the principal methods to control and operate a store-and-forward network are considered. The Sita network and Type A and Type B traffic…[Read more]

SITA Head Office was located, until 1968 at 9, rue Théodore de Banville in Paris. A photograph of that building is shown in this documment.
You will also find another picture (taken in 1978?) of a meeting held apparently in Vancouver and on which we can recognize some young men: Solly Dwek, K.S. Molenaar and D. Andorka.

SITA held a meeting in Singapore in 1971 for the purpose of developing network facilities in the Pacific area. On this photogragh we can see G. Monniot, then General Manager of SITA, addressing the audience.

The SITA NYC center was the “most sophisticated in the entire network”. in 1971 the decision was taken to replace the former Univac 418-II with a more powerfull Univac 418-III. This migration was performed in September 1971 and came along with a relocation of the site to Bohemia. The photograph shows the new installation.

In 1970 the HLN was put in operation. See the complete set of maps of the SITA network in 1970!

1971 was the first aniversary of SITA HLN network as well as first transmission over the HLN of Type A traffic done for BEA with a CRT in ROM and the BEA BEACON ASRS – 5 computer reservation system in LON.

Picture of SITA Head Office Management in 1975 with list of names (from SITA Annual Report 1975)

Vous souvenez-vous de ce “petit livre rouge”: le dictionnaire technique SITA? Voici son histoire.
Do you remember this “small red book”: the SITA Technical Dictionary. Here is its story.