14 Facts About Bob O'Rear

Robert "Bob" O'Rear is a former employee of Microsoft, and is among the group of eleven early Microsoft employees who posed for an iconic company photo taken in Albuquerque in 1978.

Bob O'Rear left Microsoft in 1993, and reportedly owns a cattle ranch in Texas.

Bob O'Rear planned to be a physical education teacher, but later ended up graduating from the University of Texas at El Paso with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.

Bob O'Rear went on to graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin to study mathematics and astrophysics.

Bob O'Rear wrote programs that optimized the trajectory of Minuteman missiles during the Cold War.

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Bob O'Rear helped write a program that determined the trajectory of the Apollo Command Module as it reentered the Earth's atmosphere, and was in the NASA Command Center when Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon.

Bob O'Rear worked on a program that analyzed the patterns of correctly manufactured caps and caused the incorrectly manufactured parts to be ejected.

Bob O'Rear first joined Microsoft in 1977 and became the seventh employee.

Bob O'Rear went to work as the company's chief mathematician and project manager [1].

Bob O'Rear learned how programs were put together and reworked some of the math code in them.

Work then began as soon as the first prototype of the IBM PC was received in Thanksgiving of 1980, and Bob O'Rear was assigned both project lead and sole programmer.

Bob O'Rear started a ranch in the Texas Panhandle where he grew up with his brother.

Bob O'Rear spends more time with his family and pursues his hobbies, including golf, racquetball, and skiing.

Bob O'Rear is a director on several boards of local businesses and invests in real estate development.