Like Wayne Gretzky, Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows Release 4 is emerging as a leading candidate for the Comeback of the Year award. The impressive new version of the spreadsheet will reach stores later this ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: Can old Lotus files be converted to Excel? If so, how? — Kathy A: Wow. Lotus. That was the killer app of spreadsheet software back in the ’80s. IBM ended ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1983: Lotus Development Corporation begins selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. 1-2-3 was not the first spreadsheet application — it ...

Lotus Development Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. unveiled a joint promotion of IBM`s OS/2 operating-system software and Lotus 1-2-3/G, a new version of the flagship Lotus spreadsheet ...

Say your goodbyes, folks, Lotus 1-2-3 is being forced into retirement. For those of you old enough to remember Lotus 1-2-3, you might be shocked to learn that it was still on the market after all this ...

On this day in economic and financial history ... Created by a friend of VisiCalc's developers, Lotus 1-2-3 quickly rocketed to the lead over the Apple spreadsheet. Because of its heavy use of memory, ...

I have some Lotus 123 spreadsheets (*.WK1) with some pretty in depth macros that I need to somehow convert to Excel 2000 format and still work. I have been looking for a tool to do this or at least ...

Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better For a long stretch of early personal computing history, three ...

Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the ...

If you use CP/M (and many of us do), you should look at SuperCalc 2. It`s the best spreadsheet program for CP/M that I have tried. If you rarely use spreadsheets and you received CalcStar or ...

IBM Lotus Symphony is a free productivity software suite for both Windows and Linux users. IBM has resurrected the Symphony name from the early 1990s, but don't confuse the new Symphony with the ...