Does anyone remember the ill-fated 1040-PC, the horrible idiotic idea of reducing the 1040 just to numbers so IRS computers could scan and read....virtually an EF record. Happened during my days at HRB, we had to give this to clients and explain...yes, this really is your tax return!  Thankfully only lasted one year even if that as I remember.  (just checked, about 1999 though 'the internet' say earlier too.)