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What did an American state organisation have an acre of in the 1990s...and what was the revolutionary change?
yorkshirehornet said:
The change was technological
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andytoprankin said:
Is it some part of a computer system?
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yorkshirehornet said:
A change brought about by technology that made a lot of space and reduced workloads immediately...
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Bolton's Boots said:
Looks like paper records of all their cases, which were progressively digitalised over a couple of decades.
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Subject of Radio 4 programme
yorkshirehornet said:
It is something specific and revolutionised this ........
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andytoprankin said:
Was it the Pentium processor?
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andytoprankin said:
Or a searchable database?
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yorkshirehornet said:
in a way yes....and what did they digitise that filled an acre of storage space..... and revolutionised one aspect of the work across the FBI ???
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yorkshirehornet said:
Well it isnt DNA
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yorkshirehornet said:
Identity?
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Was paper...lots and lots of......... held by the FBI
 
You have it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0...BBC Radio 4,ends, the surprises and successes.

In the early 90s the FBI stored fingerprints for the whole of the US in a storage facility that took up a whole floor of one acre of an enormous warehouse..and fingerprints took two weeks to identify from this paper filing system. Then a couple of their own techies developed a way to digitally store them and every thing changed
 
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yorkshirehornet said:
You have it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026w7d#:~:text=Skip to content-,BBC Radio 4,ends, the surprises and successes.

In the early 90s the FBI stored fingerprints for the whole of the US in a storage facility that took up a whole floor of one acre of an enormous warehouse..and fingerprints took two weeks to identify from this paper filing system. Then a couple of their own techies developed a way to digitally store them and every thing changed
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Cheers Yorkie. Getting that answer must have been like getting teeth pulled for you...

A music question...

A band, generally and incorrectly viewed as one hit wonders, released a record that was a massive hit across Europe, the US and Australia. The singer couldn't speak or understand a word of English, but memorised the English words and sang them so well that no-one realised she couldn't understand what she was singing.

Which band, which singer and which song?
 
yorkshirehornet said:
Was it Rui da Silva?
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No - I don't think he's a band - or a woman
yorkshirehornet said:
Or Las ketchcup ...the ketchup song .... Lucía, Lola, and Pilar Muñoz?
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No - had to look that one up as I'd never heard of them/it. I wouldn't call them a band anyway - just three girls singing and wiggling their hands about.

The song I'm thinking of was written and first recorded by a rock band - it topped the US charts on the same day that Watford beat Gillingham in the FA Cup.
 
yorkshirehornet said:
Was it Venus by Shocking Blue.... singer Mariska Veres 07 Feb 1970 ?
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Yes. She couldn't speak a word of English but sang it almost to perfection and fooled everyone. There was a typo on the lyric sheet she used to memorise the words - the word goddess was written as godness, and that's what she sang. They were the first Dutch band to have a number one hit in the USA.

Back to you.
 
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