Photo: Henry Edward Roberts designed the Altair 8800. After selling his firm, he became a physician. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) NEW YORK, USA: Ed Roberts, whose early Altair 8800 computer is said to have inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to start today’s IT giant Microsoft, died in Georgia on Thursday at the age of 68. Though making of a PC is too complex to recognize one person alone in the industry, Roberts is called by some as “father of the personal computer”. The Altair is widely credited as the first personal computer and for helping inspire the modern computer industry, said a Cnet report. According to Cnet, it was Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), a company co-founded by Roberts, that introduced the Altair in 1975. When an article on the Altair appeared in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, Allen noticed this and showed the story to Gates. And followed the saga of Microsoft, which had its first offices in Albuquerque, the location of Roberts’ office. > > Read More Henry Edward Roberts dies at 68; Inventor of Early PC That Inspired Bill Gates is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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