Ed Roberts, Computer Genius, Dead at 68

This is the guy that got Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak going with his Altair computer back in the 1970's. 

Gates dropped out of Harvard and moved to Albuquerque to found Microsoft because of this guy.

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