During this same period, 1-2-3 Jell-O, a gelatin dessert that separated into three layers as it cooled, was unveiled.

1-2-3 was released on January 26, 1983 and immediately overtook Visicalc in sales.

1-2-3 was used to test general application compatibility, with Microsoft Flight Simulator being used to test graphics compatibility.

( In the single-tasking MS-DOS, 1-2-3 was sometimes used as a complete office suite.

Lotus 1-2-3 was the leading spreadsheet when DOS was the dominant operating system.

1-2-3 was written in x86 assembly language and performed some machine-dependent tricks.

Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation, and created Lotus 1-2-3.

1-2-3 was the most powerful spreadsheet available in the new PC-compatible market ; sales were enormous, turning Lotus into the largest independent software vendor in the world almost overnight.

Improv found a strong following in certain niche markets, notably financial modeling, although it was not a commercial success in comparison to mainstream products like Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Excel.

His version, Lotus 1-2-3, would go on to be an even greater success than VisiCalc, in no small part due to the fact that it ran on, and was tuned for, the new IBM PC.

Lotus 1-2-3 shipped 60, 000 copies in the first month, and Lotus was soon one of the largest software companies in the world.

It was released by Lotus Development as a follow-on to its popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3 and was produced from 1984-1992.

Symphony's spreadsheet engine was similar to, but not the same as the one used in Lotus 1-2-3, once the most popular of its kind.

Sales of IBM's PC had been slow until 1-2-3 was made public, and then increased rapidly a few months after Lotus 1-2-3s release.

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 of the IBM PC, when there was no graphical user interface.

In fact, the latter two functions were less often used, nonetheless 1-2-3 was the most powerful spreadsheet program available.

There also was ( circa 1995 ) the assertion by one Lotus cc: Mail employee that " Quattro Pro " was taken from the Italian word " quattro ", or number four, thus asserting that it was one better than Lotus 1-2-3.

Lotus 1-2-3 had originally been billed as an integrated product with spreadsheet, database and graphing functions ( hence the name " 1-2-3 ").

The tune was written originally as " Amarren Al Loco " (" Tie up the crazy guy ") by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr. – also known as Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo – but became best known in the arrangement by René Touzet which included a rhythmic ten-note " 1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3 1-2 " riff.

Although Essbase has been categorised as a general-purpose multidimensional database, it was originally developed to address the scalability issues associated with spreadsheets such as Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel.

Quattro Pro began as a DOS program ( like Lotus 1-2-3 ) but with the growing popularity of Windows from Microsoft, a Windows version of Quattro needed to be written.

Advertisements listed the new price, " new typewriter-style keyboard ", standard 128 KB of memory with new IBM-made expansion options to 512 KB, a new cartridge-based version of Lotus 1-2-3, and the ability to " run over a thousand of the most popular programs written for the IBM PC.

For example, interpreters have been written ( partially ) for Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 and PDF.

However, Her written description variations of the second triple of the " Basic Throwout " includes the following, " On the 2nd 1-2-3 the girl can take a sharp turn LEFT ...

Despite the release of Microsoft Chart, a graphics companion software, Multiplan continued to be outsold by Lotus 1-2-3.

In March 1994, Lotus decided to attack this problem by re-positioning Improv as an add-in for 1-2-3, although the programs had nothing in common other than Improv's ability to read data in 1-2-3 files.

* De Campo Uno-Dos-Tres Orihinal ( De Campo 1-2-3 ) – founded by Jose Caballero.

The Nice briefly considered looking for a replacement but, ( according to sources such as MOJO magazine ) they followed the example set by 1-2-3 ( later Clouds ), and decided to continue as a rock organ trio.

Commander McBragg is featured in the majority of episodes, replaced by three segments of The Sing-A-Long Family ( in shows # 1-2-3, # 28-29-30, and # 55-56-57 ).

Turner Hall Publishing's first offering was Note-It, a notation utility add-in for Lotus 1-2-3, which was developed by David Whitney, and licensed to Symantec.

a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet compression utility developed by Chris Graham Synex Systems.

In 1992, he won the Le Mans 24 Hours with the Peugeot 905 driven by Derek Warwick, Yannick Dalmas and Mark Blundell and, in 1993, again at Le Mans, three 905 cars driven by Geoff Brabham, Christophe Bouchut and Eric Hélary swept the field with a 1-2-3 victory.

Microsoft responded to the release of Wingz, and others such as Ashton-Tate's Full Impact and the Mac version of Lotus 1-2-3 that came out about the same time, by starting an extensive upgrade to Excel.

# " 1-2-3 " by Len Barry

His last appearance in WWF on the October 4, 1993 episode of Monday Night Raw in a 20 man battle royal match for the Intercontinental Championship, he was eliminated by " Macho Man " Randy Savage, Diesel, Bastion Booger, 1-2-3 Kid, Marty Jannetty, Adam Bomb and Bam Bam Bigelow, which has won by Razor Ramon and " The Model " Rick Martel.

In July 1980 The Professionals released their first single " Just Another Dream ," followed by a second single " 1-2-3 " in October, which reached No. 43 in the UK Singles Charts.

Multiplot was the model for the PC based Chartman by the Cambridge company that also produced the Twin spreadsheet 1-2-3 clone which introduced HP 2640 style forms to PC applications.

After Bigelow and Tatanka lost in the finals of a WWF World Tag Team Championship tournament to Bob Holly and the 1-2-3 Kid at the 1995 Royal Rumble, Bigelow was mocked at ringside by former New York Giants All-Pro linebacker Lawrence Taylor.

* Oral history interview with Jonathan Sachs discusses the development of Lotus 1-2-3, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

Jonathan Sachs ( b. June 25, 1947 ) was the programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.

While many potential customers believed that the smaller computer could run most IBM PC software and an important market for the PCjr was executives who took data home to work on, in practice it proved incompatible with about 60 % of PC applications including WordStar and two programs often used to test PC clones ' compatibility, Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Lotus 1-2-3 was able to successfully capture most of the spreadsheet market and after a number of setbacks regarding Ashton-Tate's flag product, dBASE, Borland bought Ashton-Tate and later sold Framework to Selections & Functions, Inc, who is still actively maintaining it.

The Kliq was formed from real-life best friends Michael Hickenbottom ( known as Shawn Michaels ), Kevin Nash ( who wrestled as Diesel ), Scott Hall ( then known as Razor Ramon ), Sean Waltman ( who performed as The 1-2-3 Kid ) and Paul Levesque ( known then as Hunter Hearst Helmsley ).

Some variants of Cee-lo have been described that reverse the rules of winning and losing rolls for the player who is not a banker, making a 1-2-3 a win for the player, and 4-5-6 a loss.

The team was eliminated in the first round on December 17, 1994 by Tatanka and Bam Bam Bigelow ( who went on to lose in the tournament final to Bob " Spark Plugg " Holly and The 1-2-3 Kid ).