I remember having to walk uphill both ways to the Post Office to get forms and fill them in by hand.  I remember building depreciation schedules by hand on Wilson brand 18 or 24 columnar paper.  With the advent of computerized spreadsheets (remember Lotus123??), I built my own planning worksheets based on hand written forms we had developed prior to that.  WOW!  Talk about cooking with gas!!  Much better than using buffalo chips or coal.

I've gotten tired and cranky in my old age.  The fact that ProSeries now costs several thousand dollars, paid in mid-summer in order to take advantage of discounts, makes this cranky old guy wonder about the efficiency of it all.  I did use the 2024 software to build a plan for a taxpayer who needed some pretty accurate numbers, nice that the latest update includes some of the changes.  And I still check it for reasonableness with my old spreadsheet. Caveat emptor.

Heroiam slava!  ...and MAGA!