Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, the fellow who invented the online game cartridge, died Saturday morning of a heart attack at a Mountain View, California hospital on the age of 70. His brainchild, the Fairchild Channel F Online game System, ordinarily often called the Channel F, came out only one year before Atari’s cartridge-based console, the VCS , opening the floodgates of contemporary gaming. His earliest foray into consumer electronics began early on, however wasn’t until he joined Fairchild in 1970 that he really made his mark at the tech industry. During that point, he became the best black member of the infamous Homebrew Computer Club that counted Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack as members. He was honored at this year’s GDC for his monumental contribution to fashionable gaming.
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