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 originally written by Jonathan Sachs, who had written two spreadsheet programs previously while working at Concentric Data Systems, Inc. To aid its growth, in the UK, and possibly elsewhere, Lotus 1-2-3 was the very first computer software to use television consumer advertising.

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

( 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.

Historically, Quattro Pro used keyboard commands similar to Lotus 1-2-3.

In the early days of less-than-100 % IBM PC compatible systems, Flight Simulator and Lotus 1-2-3 were used as unofficial compatibility test software for new PC clone models.

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.

It would be over 10 years after the introduction of SuperCalc before this feature was implemented in Microsoft Excel, although in Lotus 1-2-3, manual programming of iterative logic could also be used to solve this issue.

This reliance on the specific hardware of the IBM PC led to 1-2-3 being utilized as one of the two litmus test applications for true 100 % compatibility when PC clones started to appear in the early-to mid-80s.

Reviewers and users developed suites of programs to test compatibility ; the ability to operate Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Flight Simulator became a standard test.

* In the cities of Bogotá, Medellin and Cúcuta, dial 1-2-3, for police, fire department and general emergencies

* Lotus Software, a personal computer software company, best known for Lotus Notes and the 1-2-3 spreadsheet application

By the mid-1980s the rapid improvement in microcomputers, and especially the introduction of the graphical user interface and data-rich application programs like Lotus 1-2-3 led to an increasing interest in using personal computers as the client-side platform of choice in client-server computing.

This brought partial compatibility with the IBM PC and allowed the popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application to run on the Attache.

A feature unique to JAWS at the time was its use of cascading menus, in the style of the popular Lotus 1-2-3 application.

Borland supplied the 1-2-3 menus as an alternative because keystroke compatibility was needed in order to run macros in 1-2-3 worksheets.

The 1980s brought a wave of high-technology startups, creating software such as Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3, and advanced computers, but many of these companies fell into decline with the fall of the minicomputer and DOS-based systems.

The experience gained in 1964 and 1965 allowed the 7-litre Mk II to dominate the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1966 with a 1-2-3 result.

) For the same reason, a porting of Lotus 1-2-3 to mainframes with 3279 screens did not meet success because its programmers were not able to properly adapt the spreadsheet's user interface to a " screen at a time " rather than " character at a time " device.

They can also allow changes on the restrictions on costumes or props ( e. g. the Swedish " Triathlon " slams that allow for a poet, musician, and dancer to all take the stage at the same time ), changing the judging structure ( e. g. having a specific guest judge ), or changing the time limits ( e. g. a " 1-2-3 " slam with three rounds of one minute, two minutes, and three minutes, respectively ).

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

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

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.

Popular IBM PC programs at the time ( such as Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet and Autocad computer-aided drafting ) came with their own drivers to allow use of the Hercules graphics mode.

" I showed the others how to play it with a 1-2-3, 1-2, 1-2-3 beat instead of the 1-2-3-4, 1-2, 1-2-3-4 beat that is on the ( Wailers ') record ," recalled Ely.

It is a composite of many systems with heavy influence from De Campo 1-2-3 and Kali Illustrisimo.

In 1971, Alpine achieved a 1-2-3 finish in the Monte Carlo rally, using cars with engines derived from the Renault 16.

The final releases of Coherent also fully supported the iBCS COFF binary standard, which allowed binary compatibily with SCO Unix applications, including WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and several Microsoft applications including QuickBASIC, Microsoft Word, and MultiPlan.

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.

* 1-2-3 ( a series with fewer pieces and fewer movable parts, intended for younger children )

It was possible to develop some fairly sophisticated models with 1-2-3 but it was no good for time series ".

In 1985, Rod Turner negotiated the publishing agreement with David Whitney for Symantec's second product, which Turner named NoteIt ( an annotation utility for Lotus 1-2-3 ).

After a period away from the limelight, following the release of the album Starting Up ( 1987 ), a cover version of the Len Barry hit " 1-2-3 ", and a guest vocal appearance on one track on Rick Wakeman's The Time Machine, he went on the road with a band billed as Roy Wood's Army.

Following the Steiners feud, The Quebecers targeted the “ 1-2-3 ” Kid because the underdog dared stand up to them despite losing to the team several times with several different partners.

When the Quebecers faced the makeshift team of the “ 1-2-3 ” Kid and Marty Jannetty on January 10, 1994 the Quebecers came into the match with confidence but walked out without their titles as the Kid and Jannetty got the upset victory and won the gold.