Microsoft founders lead tributes to 'father of the PC'

DavidGP · Apr 2, 2010

One of the lesser known designers of what you are using now Dr Henry Edward Roberts dies an a young age of 68!

The "father of the personal computer" who kick-started the careers of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen has died at the age of 68.

Dr Henry Edward Roberts was the inventor of the Altair 8800, a machine that sparked the home computer era.

Gates and Allen contacted Dr Roberts after seeing the machine on the front cover of a magazine and offered to write software for it.

The program was known as Altair-Basic, the foundation of Microsoft's business.
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Spad · Apr 10, 2010

I didn't know that. Cool post!

DavidGP · Apr 10, 2010

Cheers for that Spad, just something that grabbed my eye when reading that days news as I knew about Dr Roberts and what he did for computing but had to take a double look as I knew he was not old, so was a bit of a suprise about his death.

Always good to learn new things and glad you gained something out of the post.

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Microsoft founders lead tributes to 'father of the PC'

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