When I first moved to Seattle in December of 1977, I checked out the local
computer stores. At "The Retail Computer Store" the clerk was Bob Wallace.
Bob invited me to the Northwest Computer Club meetings that were then held
at the Pacific Science Center (part of the 1962 Worlds Fair.)
Club officers, December 1977
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/MySystem/ClubMembers100.jpg
The Club hosted a computer fair at the Science Center. (In 1978 and 1979 it
drew thousands of people.) Bob ran the first one and I was volunteered to
run the fair the next year. I was glad the Bob was around to help for the
second fair.
The night the second fair was over, Bob and I sat around talking. He almost
finished with his Masters in Computer Science at the University of
Washington. (He was helping with the fair during finals week.) He was
excited about his new job in Albuquerque with Microsoft.
Later when I was working at Data I/O doing PLD software (ABEL), we OEMed a
few thousand copies of Bob's text editor "PC-Write".
Michael Holley
www.swtpc.com/mholley
Received on Fri Sep 27 2002 - 20:48:00 BST
