← Back to context Comment by chaps 20 days ago A lot of that is because of the advent of computer systems built by IBM to maintain records.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust 9 comments chaps Reply aspenmayer 20 days ago IBM also built a calculator for the IRS in the late 1800s. They have been working with the government before nearly anyone still alive.Edit: it was for the 1890 US census, not the IRS. I apologize for my prior error.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine chaps 20 days ago Friend, are you really conflating a calculator with a system of records knowingly used to enact the Holocaust? I recognize your point, but the valley between the two things is so large that I'm going to assume you're trolling. aspenmayer 20 days ago Not at all. I’m saying that IBM has been getting government contracts for a while, and they worked with Nazis in Germany to tabulate undesirables. 6 replies →
aspenmayer 20 days ago IBM also built a calculator for the IRS in the late 1800s. They have been working with the government before nearly anyone still alive.Edit: it was for the 1890 US census, not the IRS. I apologize for my prior error.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine chaps 20 days ago Friend, are you really conflating a calculator with a system of records knowingly used to enact the Holocaust? I recognize your point, but the valley between the two things is so large that I'm going to assume you're trolling. aspenmayer 20 days ago Not at all. I’m saying that IBM has been getting government contracts for a while, and they worked with Nazis in Germany to tabulate undesirables. 6 replies →
chaps 20 days ago Friend, are you really conflating a calculator with a system of records knowingly used to enact the Holocaust? I recognize your point, but the valley between the two things is so large that I'm going to assume you're trolling. aspenmayer 20 days ago Not at all. I’m saying that IBM has been getting government contracts for a while, and they worked with Nazis in Germany to tabulate undesirables. 6 replies →
aspenmayer 20 days ago Not at all. I’m saying that IBM has been getting government contracts for a while, and they worked with Nazis in Germany to tabulate undesirables. 6 replies →
IBM also built a calculator for the IRS in the late 1800s. They have been working with the government before nearly anyone still alive.
Edit: it was for the 1890 US census, not the IRS. I apologize for my prior error.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine
Friend, are you really conflating a calculator with a system of records knowingly used to enact the Holocaust? I recognize your point, but the valley between the two things is so large that I'm going to assume you're trolling.
Not at all. I’m saying that IBM has been getting government contracts for a while, and they worked with Nazis in Germany to tabulate undesirables.
6 replies →