Computing and Games
Gerald 'Jerry' Lawson
1940–2011
1976
Interchangeable video-game cartridges
What Gerald contributed
Led development of the Fairchild Channel F, an early home console using programmable interchangeable game cartridges.
The story
Lawson was an electronics engineer and one of the few Black leaders in the early video-game industry. His team made reusable console hardware work with separate game cartridges.
Why it matters
The system helped establish the cartridge-based business and technical model used by later video-game consoles.
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