RIP

Dr. Henry Edward Roberts passed away on April 1, 2010. He had lost his battle with pneumonia after a long struggle. Dr. Henry Edwards Roberts revolutionalized technology. He is the inventor of the personal computer in 1975. It was called the Altair 8800. Without him Bill Gates and Paul Allen would not have created Microsoft. It was Dr. Roberts who gave Bill Gates and Paul Allen a chance to write a program for his personal computer. Bill Gates made a statement in regards to Dr. Robert's passing.

"Ed was willing to take a chance on us -- two young guys interested in computers long before they were commonplace -- and we have always been grateful to him... The day our first untested software worked on his Altair was the start of a lot of great things. We will always have many fond memories of working with Ed in Albuquerque, in the MITS office right on Route 66 -- where so many exciting things happened that none of us could have imagined back then."

Thanks to Dr. Henry Edwards Roberts we are able to enjoy desktops, laptops, netbooks and other devices that derived from the first personal computer and the microprocessor that went into it. He made several major contributions to technology such as the 4 bit calculator.