He also brought the first Altair 8800 to the Homebrew Computer Club[1]: 169 and was one of the main supporters of the effort to make Tiny BASIC a standard on many early machines.
[1]: ix In 1955 Albrecht was studying for a master's 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.
[3] In 1962, while working for Control Data Corporation as a senior applications analyst, he was asked to give a talk at George Washington High School in Denver.
After Albrecht left his job at Control Data Corporation, he became involved with an educational nonprofit organization called Portola Institute.