Mr. Allen had battled the disease in 2009 and announced earlier this month that his lymphoma had returned. Mr. Allen and his Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, in 2003. They continued to work together while Mr. Allen studied at Washington State University in Pullman. Mr. Allen, according to a 1994 account in the New Yorker, purchased the magazine and hurried over to Gates’s dorm. They created it in eight weeks, and Mr. Allen flew to Albuquerque to successfully pitch the software to the Altair’s manufacturer, MITS.

Source: Washington Post October 15, 2018 22:15 UTC