Bob Wallace Timeline
Jan 12, 2004
| 1949 | Born in Washington D.C. |
| 1961 | Decided, at the age of 12, that he would become a programmer to help develop computers as a method of mind expansion. |
| 1967 | Entered Brown University where he worked with Prof. Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson on the first hypertext editing system named FRESS. |
| 1971 | Graduated from Brown University with a B.S. |
| 1976 | Founded the Northwest Computer Society, worked at the first Seattle personal computer store (76-78). |
| 1977 | Ran the first Seattle Personal Computer Fair. |
| 1978 | Earned a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Became 9th employee at Microsoft, architect of MS-Pascal compiler. |
| 1983 | Left Microsoft and started Quicksoft; Developed PC-Write and coined the term "shareware". |
| 1986 | July 4, Bob marries artist Megan Dana--first employee and Vice President of Quicksoft. |
| 1989 | Quicksoft grows to $2 million a year in sales and 32 employees. PC-Write became a widely used MS-DOS word processor. |
| 1991 | Sold Quicksoft to an ex-Microsoft manager; Continues to work on the design and programming of PC-Write. |
| 1993 | Bob left Quicksoft and looks for other possible mind-amplifying technologies; Decides that psychedelic drugs are an overlooked and misunderstood approach. |
| 1996 | Started Mind Books, a small independent bookstore for books about psychedelics. |
| 1998 | Started the Promind Foundation, to support scientific research, public education, and harm reduction efforts related to psychedelics. |
| 2002 | Died of pneumonia at his home in San Rafael at the age of 53. |