Henry Edward Roberts (born 1942) is the founder and former president of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) which built the Altair 8800, one of the very first hobbyist personal computers.
He grew up in Miami, Florida, where he attended the University of Miami and majored in electrical engineering. He joined the Air Force in 1962, and stayed in the service for 10 years, finding enough time along the way to finish his engineering deg...
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Henry Edward Roberts (born 1942) is the founder and former president of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) which built the Altair 8800, one of the very first hobbyist personal computers.
He grew up in Miami, Florida, where he attended the University of Miami and majored in electrical engineering. He joined the Air Force in 1962, and stayed in the service for 10 years, finding enough time along the way to finish his engineering degree at Oklahoma State University
As a teenager, he created circuitry for analog and digital computers. A member of the United States Air Force, he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University, and was assigned to an Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, where in his spare time he established two electronics companies, Reliance Engineering and Reliable Radio and TV.
In 1968, he was assigned to the research laboratory division of Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, where he met Forrest Mims III....
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