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'70s show or movie with a stolen (huge) computer


There was a show or movie actually in the '70s (not "That '70s Show") that featured one of those early computers that took up a whole room (like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I#/media/File:UNIVAC-I-BRL61-0977.jpg ). At one point in the show, the characters walked into the room, only to find the entire thing had been stolen. The wall it was up against was blank, with some wires still hanging. Anybody know what this was?

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Might be an episode of the Banacek which was recurring character movie of the week in rotation with Columbo and McMillan and Wife in the early to mid-70s. Season 2, Episode 2 titled "If Max is So Smart Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?" The synopsis reads: A rich hypochondriac boils over when her multi-million dollar, custom-designed diagnostic hospital computer disappears behind its electric fence overnight.

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Might be "Whiz kids" bunch of kids had basement full of computer gear wired together and solved crimes n stuff with it.

https://moviechat.org/tt0085110/Whiz-Kids

one of the threads here says FBI took their stuff away too

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