Microsoft's Bill Gates and Paul Allen Pay Respects to 'Father of the PC'
The man who gave Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen their respective first jobs with computers has died. According to the BBC News, Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, dubbed 'The Father of the PC,' passed away yesterday after a long battle with pneumonia. "Ed was willing to take a chance on us -- two young guys interested in computers long before they were commonplace -- and we have always been ...
Yesterday an icon in the world of science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke, died. The 90-year-old geek patriarch suffered from post-polio syndrome. Clarke is best known for his novel '2001: A Space Odessy' which began life as short story called 'The Sentinel' before Stanley Kubrick turned it into a hallucinatory sci-fi epic. Clarke is also credited with having first conjured up the idea of space ...








