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In the U.S. 69-year of life died an inventor, a businessman and a doctor of medicine, Henry Edward Roberts (Henry Edward Roberts), better known as Ed Roberts. On the death of Roberts told The Associated Press his son David. According to him, Ed Roberts died Thursday, April 1, in Georgia, after several months of unsuccessful treatment of pneumonia. Ed Roberts is widely known throughout the world as the creator of the microcomputer Altair 8800. It is this device, developed by MITS in 1975, became the ancestor of modern personal computers, and provided the impetus for their further development. Designed by Roberts microcomputer inspired students Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen to create a company Microsoft, which has become in a few years the largest software developer with a multi-billion turnover. Gates maintained friendly relations with Roberts for many years. The founder of Microsoft, having learned about the disease Roberts, visited him last week.