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AUTHOR Clifford Stoll Clifford Stoll (or Cliff Stoll) is a U.S. astronomer, computer systems administrator, and author. He received his Ph.D. from University of Arizona in 1980. During the 1960s and '70s, Stoll was assistant chief engineer [1] at WBFO, a public radio station in Buffalo,  on Dan Bricklin's original design for VisiCalc The first electronic spreadsheet. It was introduced in 1978 for the Apple II. Conceived by Dan Bricklin, a Harvard student, and programmed by a friend, Bob Frankston, it became a major success. : "It was an elegant solution, beautiful and with great power. Spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software
Online spreadsheets

Main article: List of online spreadsheets
  • EditGrid [1]
  • Simple Spreadsheet [2]
  • wikiCalc
 have survived for almost two decades now without much change." (Quoted in Computerworld, 4/20/98)
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Title Annotation:People; Clifford Stoll describes Dan Bricklin's original design for VisiCalc spreadsheet
Publication:Soft-Letter
Date:Apr 30, 1998
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