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What does skimming at the Las Vegas casinos and inventing the dot marix printer have to do with each other?

Casino skimming was a large problem for the FBI in the 1960s. Skimming was the way Las Vegas casinos avoided taxes by illegally siphoning off gambling profits and routing those funds to a number of organized crime syndicates across the nation. Robert Howard started the company Centronics Data Computer Corporation to develop casino accounting systems [...]

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