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Posted by sharx35 on February 15, 2008, 4:17 am
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> Hi, Scott.
>
>> Those were the days of dot matrix printer and you had to very
>> carefully try to line up a paper 1040 into the printer platen
>> and the program would attempt to print the data into the boxes.
>
> Ah, yes! I remember it well! (But NOT fondly!)
>
> One technique was to print the data onto a transparent sheet of thin
> plastic, then very carefully position that data over the paper 1040 and
> put the assembly face-down onto the bed of a copying machine and hope that
> nothing slipped while it copied. When it worked, the copy that emerged
> was a competed return.
>
> My printer was actually a Xerox Diablo daisy-wheel printer, so the
> completed return was BEAUTIFUL! ;<) But my wastebasket was full of
> almost-beautiful-but-misaligned rejects. :>(
>
> For reasons that should be obvious, I did this for just the front and back
> of the 1040 itself. All the supporting Forms and Schedules were
> photocopies of the forms filled in with hand-entered data. The originals
> usually were in pencil, not ink.
Do you do crossword puzzles in pencil, too?
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>
>>
>>> P.Schuman wrote:
>>>> Arnie Goetchius wrote:
>>>>> Jerry Boyle wrote:
>>>>>>> so... whadda think -
>>>>>>> if you have to post only in one... which one ?
>>>>> ==snipped==
>>>>>
>>>>>> I strongly prefer this group simply because it's standard
>>>>>> newsgroup format lets me use the standard browsing, posting,
>>>>>> monitoring and filtering tools of my newsreader.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Amen. Agree with that 100%.
>>>>
>>>> yeah - it's easier to hang out here....
>>>> BUT - you get a wider audience with the web based forums.
>>>> For my recent rash of postings,
>>>> I've been snip'ing and posting the question on the
>>>> Quicken and TurboTax forums.
>>>> https://ttlc.intuit.com/app/full_page
>>>> http://www.quickencommunity.com/webx?50@@.ef93dfe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You have a point. Takes me back 20 years when Turbotax was supported
>>> by a BBS at
>>>
>>> =================================================
>>>
>>> 619-453-5232
>>> San Diego, CA ChipSoft (Tax Programs),
>>> ChipSoft BBS, ChipSoft Inc, Chipsoft, Inc.,
>>> Turbo Tax Technical Support
>>> (1991-1995) PCBoard
>>>
>>
>> I'm kind of a pack-rat but I think I finally threw out my old
>> Chipsoft manuals, though I still have the software from 87 onward.
>> Those were the days of dot matrix printer and you had to very
>> carefully try to line up a paper 1040 into the printer platen
>> and the program would attempt to print the data into the boxes.
>>
>> scott s.
>> .
>
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