Dr. h edward roberts altair biography

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  • Born in Miami in 1941, Roberts became fascinated by electronics while studying medicine at Oklahoma State University, so he deferred his dream of becoming a.

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    Ed Roberts: Pioneering electronics engineer who built the first widely available home computer

    Ed Roberts was one of the early pioneers in the world of personal computing, an electronics engineer who designed and created the first widely available home microcomputer in 1974. With no keyboard, no screen and only a set of switches to programme it, this was a different beast to today's laptop and desktop PCs. However, it is thanks to Roberts and his colleagues that computers emerged out of the worlds of academia, the military and commerce to make their way into our homes.

    It was the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine that heralded this revolution. The editors had heard of a project by Roberts' company, MITS, to create a kit computer for home use. Although the Altair 8800 machine they illustrated was just a prototype when the magazine was published, the resulting publicity brought thousands of orders and bolstered the previously loss-making company.

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    Ed Roberts (computer engineer)

    American engineer, entrepreneur and doctor

    Ed Roberts

    Roberts in 2002

    Born

    Henry Edward Roberts


    (1941-09-13)September 13, 1941

    Miami, Florida, U.S.

    DiedApril 1, 2010(2010-04-01) (aged 68)

    Cochran, Georgia, U.S.

    EducationUniversity of Miami
    Oklahoma State University
    Mercer University
    Occupation(s)Electrical engineer
    Businessman
    Entrepreneur
    Farmer
    Medical doctor
    Known forPersonal computer
    Spouses

    Joan Clark

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    (m. 1962; div. 1988)​

    Donna Mauldin

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    (m. 1991; div. 1999)​

    Rosa Cooper

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    (m. 2000)​
    Children6

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  • dr. h edward roberts altair biography

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    Ed Roberts

    Henry Edward Roberts (13 de setembro de 1941 - 1º de abril de 2010) foi um engenheiro, empresário e médico estadunidense que inventou o primeiro computador pessoal comercialmente bem-sucedido em 1974.[1] Ele é mais frequentemente conhecido como o "pai do computador pessoal".[2] Ele fundou a Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) em 1970 para vender kits eletrônicos para entusiastas de foguetes, mas o primeiro produto bem-sucedido foi um kit de calculadora eletrônica que foi destaque na capa da edição de novembro de 1971 da Popular Electronics.[3] As calculadoras foram muito bem-sucedidas e as vendas ultrapassaram um milhão de dólares em 1973.[4] Uma brutal guerra de preços de calculadoras deixou a empresa profundamente endividada em 1974. Roberts desenvolveu então o computador pessoal Altair 8800, que usava o novo microprocessador Intel 8080. Ele foi apresentado na capa da edição de janeiro de 1975 da Popular Electronics, e os entusiastas inun