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.
Date
Photograph taken in late 1977 and published in December 1977.
Source
The photograph was scanned and cropped from the December 1977 issue of the Northwest Computer Club News by Swtpc6800.
Author
John Aurelius, member of the Northwest Computer Society
This photograph was published in the December 1977 issue of the Northwest Computer Club News in a list of candidates for club offices. This newsletter was intentionally published without a copyright notice and is in the public domain. The newsletter was published in Renton, Washington.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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