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Farewell to the inventor of the PC.

Computing Deaths Way off topic
April 27, 2010, 16:15

Ed Roberts, one of many people who could reasonably claim to have invented the PC, died at the start of the month, but news has only just reached Screenwriter Towers. Thirty-five years ago he marketed a kit for a …