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Birthday
Robert Albrecht was born February 18, 1930 in Mason City Iowa but grew up in Greene, Iowa. -
Enrolled at the Iowa State University
In 1948 Bob graduated from Greene High School and he then enrolled at Iowa State University -
Joins Minneapolis Honeywell’s aeronautical division
In 1955 he quit his studies for a master’s degree (at the University of Minnesota) for a job at the Minneapolis Honeywell’s aeronautical division. -
Working at the Control Data Company
In the spring of 1962 bob Albrecht was working for the Control Data company in Denver. -
Starts teaching high school students
Albrecht started teaching evening classes to high students at the Control Data’s office. -
He learns about Basic (The computer language)
He then moved to Control Data’s Minnesota headquarters where he came across Basic (The computer language). -
Joins the educational nonprofit organization
He stopped working as an analyst to join the educational nonprofit organization called Portola Institute in San Francisco, California. He was able to fund a company called Dymax (a computer-book publishing company) and the company was able to write a series of instructional book on Basic. -
Starts his own Organization (Peoples Computer Company)
By the summer of 1972 with the help from the Portola organization bob started his own organization called Peoples Computer Company (in honor of Janis Joplin’s rock group Big Brother and the Holding Company) the periodical (PCC). -
First issue of PCC
The first issue of Peoples Computer Company was released on October of 1972. -
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Editor
. From 1972 to 1977 he was the editor of Peoples Computer Company. -
The Altair 8800 machine
The first personal computers showed up the Altair 8800. During 1975 the Peoples Computer Company devoted pages to the Altair 8800 machine, which is considered the spark of the microcomputer revolution.The PCC publish a three-part series called the Tiny Basic (a version of BASIC that was small enough to fit within the limited memory of the new machine). -
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Founded Calculators/computers Magazine
During 1977 – 1979 he founded a resource for teachers called Calculators/computers Magazine. -
His last Basic book
His last Basic book (Teach Yourself Visual Basic) was published in 1996. -
Tutoring and developing curriculum
As of 2008 he was tutoring and developing curriculum in algebra, calculus, and physics. He has posted instructional files at Curriki.org and his collection of books are available on the Information Age Education (IAE) website. -
Currently
He live's in Newport, Oregon as of 2009. -
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References
Levy, Steven.(2010). Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Sebastopol, CA: OReilly.
Albrecht Robert, Moursund David. “Robert Albrecht”. IAE-PEDIA.2007. https://iae-pedia.org/Robert_Albrecht#Author
Cappetta, Jon. “Interview with Bob Albrecht by Jon Cappetta”. HCLE Virtual Museum – the blog. July 2015. https://hclemuseum.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/interview-with-bob-albrecht-by-jon-cappetta-2/ For picture references please ask
