This man made what our lives what it is today.  Dr Henry Edward Roberts “the father of the personal computer”.  Take a moment and ponder what our lives would be without the personal computer.

In 1975, Dr Henry Edward Roberts designed the first commercially successful personal computer the Altair 8800 running the Intel 8080 microprocessor.  Altair 8800 sparked the era where personal computers were accepted as a household item and look at the growth of the personal computer now after 30 years since it took off.  Try to compare the Altair 8800 and today’s personal computer, how the technology has evolved by leaps and bounds.  Amazing isn’t it.

His invention, the Altair 8800 was published in the January issue of Popular Electronics and caught the eyes of the Microsoft’s founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen.  They called Dr Henry and joined him at at his company, Micro Instrument and Telemetry Systems (MITS).  The Microsoft’s founders created the first Microsoft product, a software named Altair-BASIC.

With the personal computer ever getting more popular, it became a common household item.  A home won’t be complete without having one computer.  Nowadays a home has more than one computer, one for each family member.  How the invention of the personal computer has change how we live.

Thank You Dr Henry Edward Roberts.  You are gone but your contribution will live on for centuries to come.

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