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-XwxRcgb BtP_lHW_DJqyo5ogD9EQKQJO4

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.