PC pioneer Ed Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 (shown here), has died at 68. Roberts, who earned a medical degree and had a practice in Georgia, picked Bill Gates and Paul Allen to write Altair BASIC, which later became Microsoft BASIC. Roberts' Altair had an open bus to add components, but a small memory board and insufficient power supply.
Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, who designed the Altair 8800 personal computer in 1974, died April 1, at the age of 68. The computer kit that "Ed" Roberts developed and offered to hobbyists at a price of $397 is credited by many industry observers as the key event that launched the personal-computer revolution.
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