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Yeah. Yeah. Ever see $10 million dollars all at one time in one place. Well here it is. I have to admit it isn't quite the thrill I anticipated if and when I ever got to hold that amount of money. But this magnetic computer tape replaces this

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entire card of Air Force paychecks 60,000 of them. The Federal Reserve Bank here in san Francisco handles 150,000 government checks every day To cut down that mountain of paperwork. They started an automatic deposit system for Air Force personnel requesting it last fall. They simply feed the

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data onto the tape in the proper amount of pay is transferred electronically into his or her bank account. No check, no mailing, no effects. There's no chance of losing a payment that comes through this or of having it fraudulently. No chance. No. Well probably not, no

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chance. But it's the chance is very slight. Computers don't make that many errors and they tell me it's working so well about four times faster than the old system. They may someday expand the automatic deposit to all military and Social Security checks. John former Channel four

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