ARLA/CLUSTER: Como os radioamadores revolucionaram a industria de jogos de computador

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Radio ham who revolutionized the video game industry

IGN Entertainment have published an article about the African-American
radio amateur *Jerry Lawson WA6LVN* who revolutionized the video game
industry

His enthusiasm for amateur radio started when his parents bought him a ham
radio receiver kit.
"I built it and it worked," he recalled. "I think the greatest joy I ever
had in my life was when I put that thing together by myself with nobody
helping me."

He passed his amateur radio exam at the age of 13.

In the 1970's Jerry became a member of the famous Homebrew Computer Club—a
gathering of computer enthusiasts that included Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak WA6BND, founders of Apple computers. In later interviews he
recalled that he did not have a particularly good impression of the Steves,
and even turned Steven Wozniak WA6BND down to instead take an engineering
position at Fairchild.

Video games were just a budding concept in the 70s, but Lawson would become
the Chief Engineer of Fairchild’s Video Game division, starting with a
clandestine project to port an Alpex game from the Intel 8080 to the
Fairchild F8.

In this position, Lawson had a significant amount of freedom, and the
partnership would lead to the Alpex video game cartridge idea to be
licensed by Fairchild. History often cites Lawson as being the sole
inventor of the cartridge, but he is more appropriately the person who lead
the commercialization of a polished version of it.

Read the IGN article at
https://uk.ign.com/articles/2019/02/22/jerry-lawson-the-black-man-who-revolutionized-gaming-as-we-know-it

Engineers of History: Jerry Lawson, Video Game Pioneer (1940-2011)
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/engineers-of-history-jerry-lawson-video-game-pioneer-1940-2011/
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