Ed Roberts, Personal Computer Pioneer, 1941-2010 110
A user writes "CNET and the Huffington Post both report the death of Henry Edward Roberts, best known to all of us as the inventor of the Altair computer, at the age of 68 from pneumonia. As it happens, I never got to use an Altair, but I did meet Ed once, back in the mid-1980s. Since that time, I've never referred to the Altair bus as the 'S100' bus, since I agree with him that an inventor is entitled to name his invention." Updated 7:40 GMT by timothy: Roberts was 68, not 88 as originally stated; thanks to the readers who pointed out the typo.
Re:88? Not that lucky. (Score:5, Funny)
His age was computed using a Pentium, not an Altair.
Re:88? Not that lucky. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Age (Score:1, Funny)
You can't even use an apostrophe correctly. Don't talk to us about other people's bad math.
Ed Roberts Dead at 68 (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:When I met Ed... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah. I know what you mean.
My father was going to take me on a fishing trip to Canada once but we didn't go.
April 1st (Score:2, Funny)
People needs to stop dying on April 1st. Nobody takes the news seriously (at first).
Re:He started something big (Score:3, Funny)
(I'd rewrite that to correct for a missing "and" in the first sentence, and a missing "losers" in the second, but my vodka martini with a couple of lovely marinated olives says I don't want to. Arguably, this makes me a loser, but then: "Adolf" passes spellcheck just fine. Please moderate accordingly, whatever that means.)
Re:He started something big (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:88? Not that lucky. (Score:3, Funny)
LOL
Why did you feed the auto-troll? I am more demanding of my trolls. They have to work for their treats.
I think nearly every time a submission is made on Slashdot about somebody passing on a lazy troll takes out this troll form and replaces the name. I have seen it quite often and in several places.
Re:April 1st (Score:4, Funny)
People needs to stop dying on April 1st. Nobody takes the news seriously (at first).
Hey, dying isn't fun, let me tell you. I expect if I were dying, I'd be looking for ways to make it fun.
Re:yay for a renaissance man who touched many (Score:3, Funny)
yay for a renaissance man who touched many
That’s what the pope said! :D
Spellcheck driven M&A (Score:1, Funny)
At the time Sperry/Burroughs merged to form Unisys it was rumoured that Sperry's word processing software rejected "unisys" and suggested "anuses" as a likely fix.
Re:it's all in the 8's (Score:3, Funny)
there was no OS. if you wanted an OS, you wrote it in basic as you needed it.
Real mean wrote their own bootstrap, OS and higher level language in assembler.. "Basic".. damned kids these days.