If you have old files that were created by the Kiplinger Taxcut program (back in the days of CD-ROMs) they are impossible to read now, unless you had the foresight to print all of your forms to pdf. Twenty years later, who cares, but in case anyone finds it useful I am uploading a copy of TaxCut 1998 here. Rather than waste a lot of space with the .iso, it's just a zip file of the necessary program files. I used it in a Win7 VirtualBox and was able to print everything easily. Spoiler alert: you probably (hopefully) make more money now. Or maybe less. Anyway it might be fun to find out. Kiplinger TaxCut 1998
Here are the solutions I find on my own once customer support tells me they've exhausted all options.