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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. Original Source by nmb3000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those not interested in helping useless middle-man ad farms, here's the original source on the National Archives website (including the YouTube video):

    How Computers Changed the Tax Game

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    "What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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  2. Re:Uproar? by oobayly · · Score: 3, Informative

    Reminds me of another joke:
    A man wakes up to the noise of a burglar in his garden shed, so he calls the police who tell him there's nobody available to respond. He hangs up, waits a minute and then calls the police and tells them "don't worry about the burglar, I've shot him". Very soon, the multiple police cars turn up and are able to catch the burglar in the act. A policeman accusingly says to the man "you said you shot him", he replies "you said nobody was available".