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Ed Roberts

Inventor, businessman, doctor of medicine
Date of Birth: 13.09.1941
Country: USA

Content:
  1. Biography of Ed Roberts
  2. Early Life
  3. Early Career
  4. Success with MITS
  5. Later Life and Legacy

Biography of Ed Roberts

Ed Roberts was an American electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and medical doctor who developed the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975.

He was known as the 'father of the personal computer'.

Early Life

Henry Edward Roberts was born on September 13, 1941, in Miami, Florida, to Henry Melvin Roberts and Edna Wilcher Roberts. He had a younger sister named Cheryl. During World War II, while his father was serving in the military, Ed and his mother lived on the Wilcher family farm in Wheeler County, Georgia.

After the war, the family returned to Miami, but Ed continued to spend summers on his grandparents' farm.

Roberts Sr. had his own small business repairing electrical appliances in Miami, and Ed became interested in electron