AP: MITS Altair pioneer dies age 68

[Philip Pemberton]

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-XwxRcgbBtP_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.

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