Microsoft Founders Lead Tributes to ‘Father of the PC’
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Though most reading this couldn’t pick the man out of a photo line-up or list of names, you might take a moment to bow your head in tribute to one of the men responsible for the evolution of the personal computer. Amen.
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.
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