Jerry Lawson

Jerry Lawson

Gerald Anderson Lawson

Birth Date

12/1/1940 (Age 70)

Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Death Date

4/9/2011

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Biography

Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer. He is known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console as well as leading the team that pioneered the commercial video game cartridge. He was thus dubbed the "father of the videogame cartridge" according to Black Enterprise magazine in 1982. He eventually left Fairchild and founded the game company Video-Soft. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Lawson (engineer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Gender

Male

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