It was pretty exciting for our household back in 1992 when Tax Dad got his first home office computer, and was able to use a primitive version of TurboTax to prepare his clients’ returns, instead of using a typewriter. In these days of Web filing, tax software from 1991 looks positively antiquated.

Here are some screen grabs from a 1991 episode of The Computer Chronicles.

What Tax Prep Software Looked Like in 1991 [Mental Floss]

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