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The Altair products were merged into the Pertec line and the MITS facility was used to produce the PCC-2000 small-business computer. The Albuquerque plant was closed in December 1980 and the production was moved to Pertec plants in Irvine, California.<ref name = "InfoWorld Dec 1980">{{cite magazine | last = Milewski | first = Richard | title = Last Vestige of Mits Closes |magazine= InfoWorld | volume = 2 | issue = 22 | page =7 | date = December 8, 1980 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mD4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT6 | issn = 0199-6649 | publisher = InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.}}</ref>

By the end of 1977 Roberts left MITS and returned to Georgia to be a gentleman farmer. He studied medicine at [[Mercer University]] in Macon, Georgia and graduated with a [[M.D.]] in 1986. Roberts practiced medicine in [[Cochran, Georgia]], population 4500, until his death in 2010.<ref name = "NYTimes obit">{{Cite news | last = Lohr | first = Steve | title = H. Edward Roberts, PC Pioneer, Dies at 68 | newspaper = The New York Times | date = April 2, 2010 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03roberts.html}}</ref>

== See also ==