34 Facts About Peter Norton

Peter Norton was born on November 14,1943 and is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist.

Peter Norton is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait.

Peter Norton was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and raised in Seattle.

Peter Norton attended Reed College and later worked on mainframes and minicomputers for companies like Boeing and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Peter Norton has a significant personal art collection and has been involved in various philanthropic endeavors, including the Peter Norton Family Foundation.

Peter Norton has donated art to numerous museums and universities.

Peter Norton was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and raised in Seattle.

Peter Norton attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, graduating in 1965.

Peter Norton was a pioneer in IBM PC compatible utilities software.

Peter Norton marketed the program through his one-man software publishing company, leaving behind little pamphlets with technical notes at users group meetings and computer stores.

Peter Norton wrote several other technical manuals and introductory computing books.

Peter Norton began writing monthly columns in 1983 for PC Magazine and later PC Week magazine as well, which he wrote until 1987.

Peter Norton soon became recognized as a principal authority on IBM personal computer technology.

In 1984, Peter Norton Computing reached $1 million in revenue, and version 3.0 of the Peter Norton Utilities was released.

Peter Norton was doing all of the software development, all of the book writing, all of the manual writing and running the business.

Peter Norton hired his fourth employee and first programmer, Brad Kingsbury, in July 1985.

In late 1985, Peter Norton hired a business manager to take care of the day-to-day operations.

In March 1990, Peter Norton Computing released the Peter Norton Backup program dedicated to backing up and restoring hard disks.

Peter Norton was given one-third of Symantec's stock, worth about $60 million, and a seat on Symantec's board of directors.

Peter Norton's image was used on the packaging of all Peter Norton-branded products until 2001.

The first edition was nicknamed "the pink shirt book", after the pink shirt that Peter Norton wore for the cover photo, and Peter Norton's crossed-arm pose on that cover is a US registered trademark.

Peter Norton has a "significant investment" in the company and serves as Chairman of Acorn's board of directors.

Peter Norton is chairman of eChinaCash, a company he founded in 2003.

Peter Norton spent around five years in a Buddhist monastery in the San Francisco Bay area during the 1970s.

In 1983, Peter Norton married Eileen Harris, a black woman who grew up in Watts, California.

Peter Norton afterward lived much of the time in New York.

In February 2001, a fire caused by faulty wiring destroyed the Martha's Vineyard home; Peter Norton had it rebuilt to almost exactly as it was before the fire.

Peter Norton was an "Islander" who lived in the area.

Peter Norton serves on the boards of the California Institute of Technology, California Institute of the Arts, Crossroads School, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 2003, Peter Norton became the chairman of the board of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York.

Peter Norton serves on the executive committee of the Guggenheim Museum's International Directors' Council, the museum's primary acquisition committee, and on the board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

In 1999, Peter Norton purchased letters written to Joyce Maynard by reclusive author JD Salinger for $156,500.

Peter Norton announced that his intention was to return the letters to Salinger.

In March 2015, Peter Norton organized a second major art donation project: he donated numerous pieces from his personal art collection to museums internationally.