On January 26, 1983, a spreadsheet program called Lotus 1-2-3 burst onto the personal computing scene. Facing a horde of competitors including VisiCalc (the original Apple II "killer app ...

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Thirty-one years is a good run for any product and that is how long we have lived with the spreadsheet that defined the PC generation, Lotus 1-2-3. Earlier this week IBM Lotus 1-2-3. Millennium ...

Talk about the end of an era: IBM officially ended support of Lotus 1-2-3 on September 30. For those who weren’t around in the 1980s, 1-2-3 was the world’s most popular spreadsheet and drove ...

Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet files typically end with .wk1 or another number. If you still have Lotus software on your computer, save the file as a .csv (comma separated value). Data saved though ...

A: Devout Lotus 1-2-3 users have been able to install and use the popular 80s spreadsheet program in Windows right up through the release of Windows 7 (as indicated above). But compatibility ...

Over the weekend, the world observed the 30th birthday of Lotus 1–2–3, the onetime office hegemon that, in the words of co-creator Mitch Kapor, “really legitimised the PC worldwide as a ...

Q: I know I’ve been a little slow to upgrade, but I’ve finally ­decided to move to Windows XP from Windows 98, which works well with Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect. I’d liked to stay with those ...

Nostalgic fans of the Amiga line of computers can now access thousands of software titles dating back to the 1980s in their browser, thanks to a new collection available at the Internet Archive ...

Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, the first feature-heavy, user-friendly, reliable and WYSIWYG-enabled product to become widely available in the early days ...