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		NoSalt 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Compu... Wow ... the man who invented it, Ed Roberts, had quite the life: `• Air Force enlisted • Air Force comissioned • Electrical Engineer • Computer inventor • "Gentleman" farmer • Medical doctor` https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roberts_(computer_engineer)

pipes 8 months ago [–]

Bill Gates goes into this in his autobiography, source code. Paints a very positive picture of him.

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