2 Apr
2010
2 Apr
'10
1:04 a.m.
Heard this on Radio 2 this morning, but it doesn't seem to be on the BBC
News website...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i88Z-XwxRcgbBtP_lHW_DJqyo…
ATLANTA ? Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, a developer of an
early personal
computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died Thursday
in Georgia. He was 68.
Roberts, whose build-it-yourself kit concentrated thousands of
dollars worth of computer capability in an affordable package,
inspired Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen to come up
with Microsoft in 1975 after they saw an article about the MITS
Altair 8800 in Popular Electronics.
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Phil.
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http://www.philpem.me.uk/