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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: CD-ROM applications
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Dec23.194157.20342@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:27:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.194157.20342@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
- >In article <BzpBMx.G1w@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- >writes:
- >>>Perhaps
- >>>if they developed a *good* tax preparation program, they wouldn't place
- >>>the onus on everybody else.
- >
- >> They have, for IBM CD-ROM. Unfortunately, CD-ROM technology has not caught
- >>on at all in the Amiga market. CDTV excluded, of course, since it is not a
- >>modern Amiga with an up-to-date OS and graphics capabilities.
- >
- >Are American tax forms really that difficult to fill out? I realize that a
- >CD-ROM containing standardized forms for all states and categories would be
- >beneficial for business and industry, but isn't this a bit of overkill for
- >the average home user? For the investment in the software and CD-ROM drive,
- >you could buy a lot of pencils.
-
- You can say that about any method of preparing taxes that uses anything
- beyond a pencil. Obviously, it would not be cost effective to purchase a
- CD-ROM drive JUST to prepare taxes, just as it would not be cost effective to
- purchase a computer just to prepare taxes. But the CD-ROM drive enhances the
- whole system, not just one application of it. After using the CD-ROM to
- prepare your taxes from pre-scanned tax forms, you could use the CD-ROM to
- hunt down a font typeface from a CD-ROM library of font typefaces, or play a
- HUGE CD-ROM game, or to run an interactive training presentation that uses
- the CD-ROM along with a high-resolution non-interlaced display.
-
- The CD-ROM has a miriad of applications. Just be creative. Wasn't the
- Amiga once called "the computer for the creative mind"?
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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