Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	talk.politics.misc, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.politics.usa
Subject	Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers
Date	2024-08-18 03:45 +0000
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 22:01:12 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    Hmm ... what was good in the very early 60s ?
>    IBM had a number of offerings, esp it's new and great System/360. The
>    article did not specify WHAT 'ancient' computers.

Depending on how literally you want to take 'Kennedy administration' it 
would be a 7000 hopefully. At least that one had transistors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_700/7000_series

https://web.archive.org/web/20200119162242/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/
big-brother-7074-is-watching-you/

A contemporary article with a chilling vision of the future:

"Eventually, large corporations could also be plugged into the system. 
Computers thousands of miles apart could talk taxes without any numbskull 
human interference. Banks could be hooked in, too, reporting who is 
getting interest payments. Real-estate and stock-market computers might 
tattle on who is making money. Machines in charity organizations could 
reveal amounts of donations. And hospital computers could report on 
individual medical costs."

System/360 was announced in '64 but RPI had one of the first 360/30s in 
'65 when I took my first programming class in FORTRAN IV. Kennedy was shot 
in '63.

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  Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-08-18 02:24 +0000
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-17 23:07 -0400
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  Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-18 03:45 +0000
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-18 00:52 -0400
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-19 02:01 +0000
      Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-19 20:59 +0000
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  Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-08-19 09:39 +0100
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-19 20:56 +0000
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