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Ed Roberts, a Common card
Henry Edward Roberts was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful microcomputer in 1974.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 156
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 156 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Ed Roberts quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ed Roberts card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is most often known as "the father of the ______ computer".
Answer
personal. He is most often known as "the father of the personal computer". From the Ed Roberts article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Henry Edward Roberts was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful microcomputer in ____.
Answer
1970s. Henry Edward Roberts was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful microcomputer in 1974. From the Ed Roberts article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Thermonuclear weapon. Thermonuclear weapon 87 · Poisson distribution 83 · Orchestration 79 · Ed Roberts 74 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is most often known as "the father of the personal computer".
- Roberts founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but the first successful product was an electronic calculator kit that was featured on the cover of the November 1971 issue of Popular Electronics.
- The calculators were very successful and sales topped one million dollars in 1973.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ed Roberts article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Ed Roberts (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Spencer Smith, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
