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Vintage 1960s Era Film Shows IRS Defending Its Use of Computers

Posted by samzenpus on from the how-I-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-cd-rom dept.

coondoggie (973519) writes "It's impossible to imagine the Internal Revenue Service or most other number-crunching agencies or companies working without computers. But when the IRS went to computers — the Automatic Data Processing system --there was an uproar. The agency went so far as to produce a short film on the topic called Right On The Button, to convince the public computers were a good thing."

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  1. Re:Uproar? by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Funny

    This party sadly came true.

  2. Re:"Feel Like a Number" by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank goodness that never came to be, #37809.

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  3. Computers are a passing fad by jfdavis668 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They will go away in a few years.

  4. Re:Context? by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yah totally. We was still in amazement of the printing press! Now computers!

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  5. Re:"Feel Like a Number" by swb · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I am not a man, I am a free number!"

  6. Re:Uproar? by LordLimecat · · Score: 4, Funny

    A bank executive... was on the scene in five minutes.

    Sounds legit. I know if I were a bank executive, Id be hanging out near my ATMs just in case "the people" needed me, like some sort of financial batman.