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In 2006 at Birmingham airport, they used beige keyboards with several dark red keys, yet without a separate navigation (cursor, PgUp, PgDn etc.) key section. One of the red keys (roughly at the same position where the Return key is situated on PC keyboards) was labeled "Truncate". The keyboards were not branded.

Does anybody know which system they belonged to?

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    Likely a SABRE specialty-built terminal. Airlines had been running reservations on mainframe systems for decades. SABRE was built by IBM and American Airlines and was used by tons of airlines. But I haven’t paid attention to that since the late ‘90s so I might be off. Commented Jan 8 at 22:46
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    This apparently still is a thing you can buy today: logickeyboard.com/shop/sabre-travel-network-2433p.html Looks like a standard Windows keyboard with application-specific key caps. Some of them are red. Commented Jan 8 at 23:12
  • @EuroMicelli This was an immigration counter, not a ticketing or check-in one. Commented Jan 9 at 21:29
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    @Neppomuk, ah, I suggest you put that explicitly in the body of the question as well. One gets used to poorly-worded titles and tends to pay close attention only to the body Commented Jan 10 at 12:47
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    @ghellquist Even James Bond once used the Philips keyboard! :D But no, the one at UK immigration wasn't a Philips. Commented Jan 14 at 19:49

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