At 17:01 +0000 on 04/15/2013, DASDBILL2 wrote about Re: 'Hacking The
Mainframe': What Hollywood Gets Wrong About:
I remember once seeing a used card sorter in a side show tent at a
country fair somewhere. I think it was in the tent where you could
have your fortune read or your weight guessed.
I have a vague memory of this type of set-up at the Circus Circus
Casino in LV in the late 60's or early 70's (I used to go there for
vacation).
They also used to use Card Sorters on Dragnet to do data searches. In
the science fiction area, card sorters were used to so a data search
in the E. E. "Doc" Smith Lensmen Series.
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