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Originally Posted by Icelander
Carry around databases of tire tracks, fibers or other forensic evidence, to aid in recognising them, giving a bonus to specific Forensics checks?
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They don't have the storage or the displays to do that. All these example computers have monochrome displays; good colour displays, with 16 million colours, are a late 1990s thing.
There are commercial databases available on dial-up, each with their own arcane search engine. But they're things like abstracts of scientific journals, not law-enforcement information. They are also expensive to use, about $5/minute. They're being replaced by CD-ROMs as of 1988, and were later replaced by the web.