{"id":885,"date":"2010-04-02T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=885"},"modified":"2010-04-02T07:22:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T13:22:33","slug":"r-i-p-dr-henry-edward-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Dr Henry Edward Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, inventor of the Altair 8800 &#8211; considered by some to be the first &#8220;personal computer&#8221; &#8211; died yesterday at the age of 68.<\/p>\n<p>The Altair 8800 was a switch-based computer, and it caught the attention of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who moved from suburban Seattle to Albuquerque, NM (where Roberts lived at the time) to found Micro-Soft and write an\u00c2\u00a0 the BASIC language &#8211; to help people program it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, inventor of the Altair 8800 &#8211; considered by some to be the first &#8220;personal computer&#8221; &#8211; died yesterday at the age of 68. The Altair 8800 was a switch-based computer, and it caught the attention of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who moved from suburban Seattle to Albuquerque, NM (where Roberts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-ravings","category-technical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}