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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 The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They were afraid the computers would steal their souls through their tax returns.

    Sadly we gave them away for free, in the name of (false) security, not long after September 11, 2001.

  2. Re:"Feel Like a Number" by rubycodez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    now we're treated like terrorists and crimminals, so much better