Ed Roberts and the Altair 8800
Last Thursday Ed Roberts died. Electrical engineer, computer engineer and entrepreneur, he is most often known as the "the father of the personal computer". He designed the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975, after making electronic calculators popular a few years earlier.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen joined his company, MITS, to develop software and Altair BASIC was Microsoft's first product.
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