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Monday, August 31, 2015 – Permalink – Lotus 1-2-3?Excel!You could tell when Lotus was being taught by the instructor's chants of the multiple keystrokes. "Slash, F, Down arrow, Return, Slash, . . ." "Another feature that illustrates 1-2-3's human-engineering design is its jargon-free prompts, explanatory messages, and fail-safe mechanisms. First Lotus 1-2-3 Review Lotus was another application that missed the Windows train. Here is a video discussing the spreadsheets about twenty years ago: "Excel now dominates the spreadsheet world, but once upon a time there was actual competition among spreadsheet products. This program looks at Quattro 1.0, Allways 1.0, Lotus 1-2-3 3.0, Ashton-Tate's Full Impact, and Excel 2.1. Guests include Gary Kildall, Jan Lewis, and Jared Taylor of PC Magazine. Originally broadcast in 1988." Spreadsheet Wars One of the problems expressed in this program, was that you needed to run Excel on a 286 or 386 machine. Wikipedia.com: "The rise of Microsoft Windows in the personal computer market was accompanied by the rise in Microsoft's competing spreadsheet, Excel, and it gradually usurped the position of 1-2-3. Being loyal to OS/2, Lotus was slow to embrace Windows. Additionally, several versions of 1-2-3 were available concurrently, each with different set of functionality and slightly different interface." Lotus 1-2-3 Here is the original PC spreadsheet program. You can download it, play with it, and then run back to Excel. VisiCalc.exe VisiCalc: Information from its creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston See all Topics excel <Doug Klippert@ 3:00 AM
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