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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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