Vintage 1960s Era Film Shows IRS Defending Its Use of Computers 146
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."
Re:Uproar? (Score:5, Funny)
This party sadly came true.
Re:"Feel Like a Number" (Score:5, Funny)
Thank goodness that never came to be, #37809.
Computers are a passing fad (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Context? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"Feel Like a Number" (Score:4, Funny)
"I am not a man, I am a free number!"
Re:Uproar? (Score:5, 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.