Avinash Joshi

Microsoft founders lead tributes to ‘father of the PC’ Dr Roberts died after a long bout of pneumonia The “father of the personal computer” who kick-started the careers of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen has died at the age of 68. Dr Henry Edward Roberts was the inventor of the Altair 8800, a machine that sparked the home computer era. Gates and Allen contacted Dr Roberts after seeing the machine on the front cover of a magazine and [...]