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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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  2. Re:Uproar? by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The uproar was that with computers long term storage the IRS could do things like make you pay taxes on something your parents did 60 years ago, or use the power of tagging to harass specific organizations based on political leanings. What absurd notions those people of ancient times had!

    Chuckle.

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