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    History repeats itself. See INDECS in the 80s.

    Immigration and Nationality Department Electronic Computer system at Bootle.

    Instead of using the lovely ladies at Traffic Index in Croydon to match up landing and embarkation cards, allocate the punters an alpha-numeric code on the landing cards, write this in the passports, transfer this to the embarkation card on departure, leave it a couple of months, press the button and we'd have a list of all the overstayers and could round them up!

    Brilliant.

    The button was pressed and the tractor feed ran out of paper.

    Oh how we laughed!

    Meanwhile the ever helpful Lord Avebury had made sure that it was a stand alone unit and couldn't be cross referenced with the IU computer at Harmondsworth.

    Meanwhile I was using the 'ways and means act' to access DVLA computer in Swansea for addresses and picking them off as they applied for driving licences ......

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