Bob Albrecht

Bob Albrecht is a key figure in the early history of microcomputers; he was one of the founders of the People's Computer Company and its associated newsletters which turned into Dr. Dobb's Journal, brought the first Altair 8800 to the Homebrew Computer Club,[1] was one of the main supporters of the effort to make Tiny BASIC a standard on many early machines,[2] and wrote a number of books on BASIC and other computer topics.[3] He is mentioned as one of the "who's who" in Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.[4]

In 1955 Albrecht was studying or a masters degree when he quit for a job at the Minneapolis-Honeywell Aeronautical Division in Minneapolis, which had entered the computer market in April that year. He was working in a large room of engineers on flight control systems for high-speed jet aircraft using analog techniques. after a few months he was invited to join work on a IBM 650 drum computer, with the intention that he would than promote the use of the computer amongst his erstwhile analog-working co workers.[5]

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Levy 2010, p. 169.
  2. ↑ Levy 2010, p. 195.
  3. ↑ Bob Albrecht author page
  4. ↑ Levy 2010, p. ix.
  5. ↑ "Bob Albrecht". Wikispaces. Tangient LLC. Retrieved 26 April 2018.

Bibliography

  • Levy, Steven (2010). Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781449393748.



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