Years ago at our county fair I asked one of the 083 fortune tellers "are you
sure that's 9 edge, face down?"  Blank stare was his reply.



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Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 5:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Mainframe on NCIS

At 14:29 +0000 on 06/22/2014, DASDBILL2 wrote about Re: Mainframe on NCIS:

>There's nothing like high-tech as perceived by the masses.  I remember 
>when high-tech card sorters were used at carnival sideshows by fortune 
>tellers and weight guessers.

Card Sorters were also used for criminal record lookups on the old Dragnet
Show along with spinning tapes. Many shows in that era had spinning tapes
for computers (as well as blinking lights).

>Bill Fairchild
>Senior Software Engineer
>ASG Software Solutions
>Naples, FL
>
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>
>From: "Merrill, Barry" <ba...@mxg.com>
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 8:17:30 AM
>Subject: Mainframe on NCIS
>
>Listening to a past NCIS, we think it may have been Season 9 Episode 13:
>
>"How did you get that voice message he had deleted from his Cell Phone?"
>
>"I used the service provider's MAINFRAME".
>
>Barry Merrill

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