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

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> 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