- 6 floppy disks
- Personal 1040 Final
- Tax Year 1996
- v96.01
Turbo or Not Turbo -- When Was the Question? By Zolton
Every April, Uncle Sam shoves his hands down my pockets and yanks out my disposable income by the short and curly roots. And what can I do about it? My 'documentation' is a four-year-old tax return and three Burger King lunch receipts. Somehow, being lazy and disorganized and awful with money and numbers and planning has turned around to bite me in the butt. Well, this year I decided to do something about it.
Clearly, I need all the state-of-the-art tax help I can get. And this 'TurboTax' gizmo seems to be popular with the revenuer dodgers and fancy suits these days, so I gave it a whirl. I just failed to notice that this version is from sixteen freaking years ago, and therefore not as much help in tax prep as, say, a rusty abacus and a bonk on the head.
Still, I tried to get something out of the investment. And miserably failed. The CD-ROM in this thing only works on Windows 95, 98 or 2000. I'm running a household here, not an antique electronics store! My computer wasn't even born when those systems gave up the ghost. The closest I could get to 1996 technology was my old toaster, so I tried shoving the CDs in there to see if they'd play. But no. The thing just sparked and smoked and tripped the breaker in the kitchen. I guess the toaster was a Mac. The Best-Selling TurboTax Deluxe Final Edition Tax Year 1996 then to sell out very fast, if this is a must have product, be sure to order now to avoid disappointment.
