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 ...

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 issues ...

Lotus Development Corp., meeting a challenge from rival products, has added a colorful new face to the basic version of its popular 1-2-3 spreadsheet program. Unlike the many other versions of Lotus 1 ...

1983: Lotus begins selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. 1-2-3 was not the first spreadsheet application — it was preceded by VisiCalc. But 1-2-3 quickly became the most ...

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 ...

Quattro Pro is a powerful spreadsheet program that dates back to the 1980s, when it was a rival to market leader Lotus 1-2-3. It's currently part of Corel's WordPerfect Office, bundled with the ...

When IBM bought Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995, it looked as though the venerable computing giant was just about to lock up the software industry and coast to unstoppable profits. Eighteen years later ...

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 ...