Bob Wallace, Who Helped Launch Shareware, Microsoft, Dies at 50.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2002

Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 28--He had some "nutso" ideas when he studied at Brown University in the late 1960s.

But he also had some great ones.

That's how Andries van Dam remembers one of his former students, who left such an impression on the Brown computer science professor that van Dam invited him to his 60th birthday party, three decades after the student had left Providence.

That student was Bob Wallace, one of a handful of programmers who helped Bill Gates launch Microsoft in the late 1970s.

Wallace, 53, died unexpectedly on Sept. 20 at his San Rafael, Calif., home. The cause of death is still being investigated, but there is evidence that he had pneumonia in both lungs,...

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