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TAPS found its biggest market in the U.S. government, with its portability a big advantage for such customers, since they often possessed a disparate collection of computer systems<ref name="cw-oalj"/> brought about by lowest-bid government contracting requirements.
The U.S. Navy in particular was a major customer going back to the 1970s.<ref name="frank-95">Frank, "Achieving the American Dream", p. 95n.</ref> By the mid-1980s, TAPS was heavily used inside the Navy's stock management and distribution system.<ref name="NAVADS">{{cite web | url=http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA155290 |title=An Overview of the Navy Automated Transportation Documentation System (NAVADS) | first=Joseph Ralph | last=Bonomo | publisher=Naval Postgraduate School | ___location=Monterey, California | date=March 1985 | format=thesis | pages=19, 57, and ''passim''}}{{dead link|date=June 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
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During the early-mid-1980s TAPS underwent an implementation change from TAPS I, which was written in less-portable languages, to TAPS II, which was written in an explicitly designed portable dialect of the [[Pascal programming language]].<ref name="NAVADS"/>
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