{"id":843,"date":"2010-04-03T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T23:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=843"},"modified":"2010-04-03T19:53:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T23:53:49","slug":"h-edward-roberts-inventor-of-the-personal-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/04\/h-edward-roberts-inventor-of-the-personal-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"H. Edward Roberts, Inventor of the Personal Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 6px solid #000; padding: 1em; margin: 8px 0 12px 0\">\n<p>The inventor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altair_8800\">MITS Altair 8800,<\/a> the inexpensive kit computer that is widely considered to be the first personal computer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/03\/business\/03roberts.html\">has died at age 68.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inventor of the MITS Altair 8800, the inexpensive kit computer that is widely considered to be the first personal computer, has died at age 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,23,61],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital","tag-hardware","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}