Word: keypunch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process them in much the same way as when the first Star Wars movie came out. The workers will handle the 200 million taxpayer envelopes, opening and sorting the returns into categories, coding and editing them and then laboriously tapping much of the data into an out-of-date keypunch system...
...company's computer and sent to the IRS, where it goes directly into the agency's mainframes. The electronic return bypasses time-consuming steps. It does not have to be sorted at an 18-bin station called a "tingle table," numbered and coded by hand and sent to a keypunch operator who enters the data into IRS computers. Instead, the return goes immediately to the point at which it is checked by the computer for mathematical mistakes. After that, the refund is processed. Result: a check usually reaches taxpayers within three weeks -- or two if the filer authorizes a direct...