Microsoft founders lead tributes to 'father of the PC'

[Noreen]

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...................

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8600493.stm

[Rik]

We owe him a lot.

[Simon]

Indeed.