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Friday, April 2, 2010
From "inventor" of the PC to country doctor
Read the story of Dr. H. Edward Roberts, who recently died,
here
. He was an early mentor to Bill Gates, but spent the latter years of his life working as a physician in Cochran, Georgia,
population 4,455
.
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