'father Of The Pc', Early Mentor Of Bill Gates, Dies

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Dr. Ed Roberts, creator of the Altair 8800, has passed away.

Though his name is not a well known one, Ed Roberts' contribution to the computing industry has had an impact on us all. Credited with the first personal computer to the market, Roberts' Altair 8800 was the inspiration for Bill Gates and Microsoft. The machine was launched by Roberts' company MITS in 1975 and featured on the cover of Popular Electronics. Paul Allen and Bill Gates contacted Roberts and offered to write software for the computer, which resulted in both of them going to work with MITS under Roberts.

Gates and Allen founded Microsoft shortly after and in 1977 their mentor, then 36, moved to Georgia and bought a farm. In 1982 he attended medical school and in '86, he graduated first in his class; in 1988 he established a small practice in of Cochran, Georgia.

Roberts contracted pneumonia and died yesterday aged 68. Gates and Allen released a joint statement, praising the "father of the PC."

[me_saket 73]

Good, man

We can see this news because of him only.

Plz keep 2 minute silence.

[Greatest 55]

May his soul RIP...

[SumitVerma 187]

May He RIP!