Bob Wallace
Bob Wallace 1977 (28 år)
Bob Wallace, född 29 maj 1949, död 20 september 2002, var en amerikansk programmerare och en av de tidigast anställda (den nionde i ordningen) på företaget Microsoft. Han grundade senare företaget QuickSoft (1983) och myntade ordet shareware genom distribution och skapandet av programmet PC-Write [1]
På senare tid i sin karriär startade han Mind Books (1996), ett postorder-företag för böcker om psykedeliska droger efter att länge ha haft ett intresse för deras tankeutvidgande potential.
Källor
- Dennis McLellan (27 september 2002). ”Bob Wallace, 53; Pioneer in Computer Software” (på engelska). Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2002/sep/27/local/me-wallace27.
- Markoff, John (26 september 2002). ”Bob Wallace, 53, Software Pioneer, Dies” (på engelska). The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/26/business/bob-wallace-53-software-pioneer-dies.html. Läst 28 september 2014.
Referenser
- ^ ”Words to the Wise”. Take our word for it, Issue 176. http://www.takeourword.com/TOW176/page2.html. Läst 28 september 2014.
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Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 - September 20, 2002). When this photograph was taken in 1977, he was a founding member of the Northwest Computer Society, a clerk at Seattle's Retail Computer Store and a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Washington. Bob would become the ninth employee of Microsoft in 1978 and he later created the popular shareware text editor, PC Write.
Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 - September 20, 2002). When this photograph was taken in 1977, he was a founding member of the Northwest Computer Society, a clerk at Seattle's Retail Computer Store and a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Washington. Bob would become the ninth employee of Microsoft in 1978 and he later created the popular shareware text editor, PC Write.