{"id":45672,"date":"2014-10-06T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T21:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/as-obsolete-as-1-2-3.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:54:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:54:13","slug":"as-obsolete-as-1-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/as-obsolete-as-1-2-3.html","title":{"rendered":"As Obsolete as 1-2-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus 1-2-3 was, of course, <i>the<\/i> killer ap for the IBM PC, but, like WordPerfect, it never stood a chance against Microsoft&#39;s leveraging of its Office competitor (Excel) with the latest-greatest Windows (3.x) technology.<\/p>\n<p>And now, after being discontinued a while back, the extended support window has expired, and 1-2-3 becomes just a bit of history and many stacks of floppy discs that people haven&#39;t yet thrown away.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wow! I thought Lotus 1-2-3 dried up and blew away a long time ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/10\/03\/lotus-1-2-3-dead\/?ncid=rss_truncated'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/wJCudD739ntgDzW7mWnYKUI6XOp7AUvLdr2cTE7JATXQbLjjFsTEW7eDHnhohMo9ETd5l9xjpC-vZBBpj16neLysnwIGkUPp2NQjqT6OT426RckRiBgKOmRvAyAmR4Syb39dXdo1iXVLqfzfIw=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/10\/03\/lotus-1-2-3-dead\/?ncid=rss_truncated'>Lotus 1-2-3 moves into that great recycle bin in the sky<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe name Lotus 1-2-3 may not mean much to you now, but mention it in front of geeks of a certain age and they&#8217;ll be transported back to an era when IBM\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/jKYuTUBpd3K'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus 1-2-3 was, of course, the killer ap for the IBM PC, but, like WordPerfect, it never stood a chance against Microsoft&#39;s leveraging of its Office competitor (Excel) with the latest-greatest Windows (3.x) technology. And now, after being discontinued a while back, the extended support window has expired, and 1-2-3 becomes just a bit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/as-obsolete-as-1-2-3.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As Obsolete as 1-2-3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,108,21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-history","category-job-jollies","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31459,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/leaving-the-lotus-position.html","url_meta":{"origin":45672,"position":0},"title":"Leaving the Lotus position","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Nov-12 9:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently IBM is going to drop the Lotus name from the products it still sells that originally bore the Lotus label.As someone who was just entering the professional IT world when PCs were making an appearance, it's a wistful goodbye. 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