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| 16 November 2007 | |
| Intuit Profits | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| Dennis, I make the observation that I am short my practice, long Intuit. | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 16 November 2007 |
| Someone else noticed, Dennis! Discussion: I Love Philadelphia Lawyers How much you wanna bet they are all awarded coupons to use Intuit services in the future. | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| Wouldn't life be good for any of us who noticed the seismic change in the accounting business that started to take place in the late 80's because of Quicken & invested in Intuit? | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| One mistake they made was to turn the Pro Advisors program into a profit center. Short-term, quarterly thinking for you. Of course, they have many, many streams of revenue now, but they should have rolled out the red carpet, and served up a buffet at the classes, all free. What was that other spreadsheet program before Excel came along? I can't remember the name of it... | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| Showing my age here Crow...would that be Lotus 123 or Quattropro? hehehe | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| I still use DOS based Supercalc. Printing is better than Excel on my Okidata dot matrix. | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| Dennis, you are a purist. Even your programs are appellated Chateauxs (sic, chateau? chateaux?), Vintage. | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| That's it Sandy, Lotus, I was going to call Microsoft to see if they remembered the name. I'd still be long Intuit, for the time being lol. | |
Actionbsns (talk|edits) said: | 16 November 2007 |
| And remember the original word processing program - Word Star. I loved their instruction manual spelling out how to do something (I don't remember what, but it was complicated), at the end of the direction was a phrase "...if you continue to have problems check with someone in your office to see how it's done", or words to that affect. Wonder why it's not around anymore. I do prefer WordPerfect to Word though, I can't get Word to do some really easy things and don't care enough to spend time on it.
I'm just wondering if that lawsuit will cover us as taxpreparers. I know I absorb the cost of E-Filing and if an individual can do it for $15 on Turbo Tax, why does it cost me $22? | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| That's inertia loyalty in action, Action. A lot of these companies confuse inertia loyalty with brand loyalty. They think people are loyal to their brand. Not so, they just don't want to hassel of changing a program. All computer businesses are commodity businesses: the hardware AND the software, over time. Therefore, it tends to monopoly and capital, over time. The smart companies are like Drake: they are forgiven for a multitude of sins because people have real loyalty to them. Course, they are an ant to Intuit, but you can learn from anyone, and no, I don't use Drake. I would not invest in Drake if it were public (is it?), but learn from them, yes. Some practitioners would declare a 2nd Crusade to defend them. | |
| November 16, 2007 | |
| Action, where do you get $22 from? That's the REP fee, right? The e-file fee is $5.20. | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| TRS-80? What was that Tim? One of those things with the 640K RAM? I understand people are collecting the old machines today, like they do old radios. But, I'm the idiot that threw out most of my vinyl LP's. P.S. Duh, I checked the link. That is a classic. | |
Actionbsns (talk|edits) said: | 16 November 2007 |
| You're right Natalie, the $22 is the rep fee not the e-file fee. Guess there's no relief on that one. | |
| November 16, 2007 | |
| Crow: 640K? Are you KIDDING? I think it had just 4K before I finally paid to get more memory. You learned to write very compact programs with that! I still have it in the garage, though when I pulled it out several years ago, the monitor no longer worked. | |
Taxguy1024 (talk|edits) said: | 16 November 2007 |
| Crow, that old TRS-80 was back in the days before the computers even had diskette drives......the early ones loaded from cassette tape..... | |
| 16 November 2007 | |
| I did have one toy back in those days. It was an HP calculator, it used reverse polish notation (I think HP was the first with that), which I thought was neat, and it had a little stiff magnetic strip to store stuff on that you could remove. This was 1977? I still remember the price, $400 (I must have been insane). I seem to remember it had some semi-permanent memory too,i.e. if the battery was good. That ended up in the trash too. | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 18 November 2007 |
| I learned computers on a Timex Sinclair hooked to my televsion set.
I overheard an EA discussing efiling at a seminar. She mentioned that she could not efile with more then twelve W-2s...I noted I had efiled with 26 this year. She said "well I use ....., and they limit the number. She loves the brand, but paper processing 20+ wage forms? Then again, I did not upgrade to cable modem until a little over a year ago, so we do keep the loves of our childhood. I'd love to hear the OKIDATA dot matrix again....that was our first printer in 1990! What a clatter it made! | |
| November 18, 2007 | |
| My first computer had a peripheral 10 meg Davong hard drive that was about the size of a breadbox. Boy was I on the cutting edge. Most computers at that time didn't have hard drives...you had to insert the Lotus 123 disk into the 5 1/2" floppy to load it up every time you wanted to use it! | |
| 18 November 2007 | |
| I still remember those old school Apple computers from the 1980's. I never liked how they worked for the most part, but I used to love playing "Oregon Trail" on them in elementary school. | |
| November 19, 2007 | |
| One of my clients still uses an Okidata printer for 3-part invoices! I think he has a hard time getting ribbons for it. | |
Inagpurwala (talk|edits) said: | 20 November 2007 |
| Mine was Comodore64 by TI, hooked up to TV.
IshaqInagpurwala 18:19, 19 November 2007 (CST) | |
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