All About Bob Albrecht By keeganneshark Feb 18, 1930 Bob Albrecht was born 1948 Bob enrolled at The University of Iowa State 1955 Received a job at the Minneapolis-Honeywell Aeronautical Division 1955 Started to work on an IBM 650 drum computer 1962 Working for Control Data Corporation as a senior applications analyst and gave a talk at George Washington High School in Denver 1962 Love of teaching starts,Started teaching high school students 1964 Came across The Computer Language 1970 Educational Nonprofit Organization- He funded a company called Dymax which was a computer publishing company 1972 launched his project called People's Computer Company which was a newsletter to teach children the fun of computers (first issues) 1975 Altair 8800 machine, considered to spark the microcomputer revolution. Publication of the Tiny Basic was made in a three-part series 1979 Founded a Calculator/computers Magazine for teachers to use 1996 Teach Yourself Visual Basic book was published 2008 created a website for children to play games about computers and interact with 2008 posted more than 80 instructional files to Curriki.org 2020 He is involved with tutoring and helping develop curriculum materials 2020 Resource used PEDIA.2007. https://iae-pedia.org/Robert_Albrecht#Author Cappetta, Jon. “Interview with Bob Albrecht by Jon Cappetta”.
