Henry Edward Roberts dies at 68; inventor of early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates

Roberts built the MITS Altair 8800, which had no display screen. Gates and childhood friend Paul Allen created BASIC code for the computers. Later in life, Roberts became a physician. Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, a developer of an early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died Thursday in a hospital in Macon, Ga., after a long bout with pneumonia, according...

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