Re: WTB: 21 year old tax programs from 1986 for Apple II and others

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Bryan Parkoff <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
> MbadnbJ5zKS-Vc7bnZ2dnUVZ_rGinZ2d@comcast.com">news:MbadnbJ5zKS-Vc7bnZ2dnUVZ_rGinZ2d@comcast.com...
> > ballagaan wrote:
> >> WTB: 21 year old tax programs from 1986
> >> Wanted to Buy:
> >> Twenty one year old tax programs. Must be original documentation and/
> >> or original diskettes in working order. They must be from 1986 or
> >> before.
> >>
> >> Tax Advantage -- Arrays, Continental Software. Apple II and IBM
> >> compatibles
> >>
> >> Turbotax --  for IBM and compatibles.
> >>
> >> J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax --  Macintosh, Apple II, IBM, Commodore.
> >>
> >> Macintax -- Produced by Softweave for Macintosh.
> >>
> >> Tax Preparer -- HowardSoft for Apple II, IBM.
> >>
> >> Please let me know the price and condition of the above.
> >> Contact Ron by email or call 619-225-8281.
> >
> > The last time I saw old tax programs, they were in a dumpster.  ;-)
> >
> > Let me guess--you have some tax files saved by these programs and
> > want to recover the data?
> >
> > Back in those years, I was using VisiCalc for my combined Federal
> > and State returns.  I tweaked the spreadsheet each year to follow
> > the changes in the law.  It was delightful to recalculate to see
> > the consequences of adding a deduction in a fraction of a second!
> 
> Michael,
> 
>     It is funny to be at dumpster.  If Apple II programmer is willing to
> duplicate Quicken 2007 screen looking and program using 6502 assembly
> language for Apple II.  Use HGR / DHGR to draw chart / graph and colored HGR
> / DHGR text on transactions under account register.  It does the same to
> TurboTax.  Someone will give award as a winner.  Unfortunately, no one is
> interested to see Quicken for Apple II on the today market.
> 
> Bryan Parkoff 

And if ya dig around you can find a version of Quicken for the Apple II.
Never sean or heard of Quicktax for the Apple II ?

ve3myz James
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