Who gave the world cartridges for video games
Game cartridges appeared in the time of the first generation consoles. The devices for Magnavox Odyssey were a set of jumpers that included a memory game, and the first cartridge, which carried an arbitrary game program, was used in the 1976 Fairchild Channel F. prefix Jerry Lawson, the inventor of this medium, in the seventies began an era that lasted until 2003 - end of support for Nintendo 64 .
Fairchild Semiconductor was one of the key companies in Silicon Valley in the 1960s: it was her developers who created the world's first integrated circuit suitable for mass production. Six months after its founding, the company began to make a profit: the first was a deal with IBM selling hundreds of transistors, one hundred fifty dollars each.
In the 1970s, Robert Neuss, one of the company's employees, developed the eight-bit Fairchild F8 processor. Based on this processor, they built a game console Fairchild Channel F, which in 1976 went on sale at a price of 169.95 dollars. In the console there were two built games - Pong and Hockey. Later, in order to compete with Atari's VCS (they also started using cartridges in it, having seen the effectiveness of this approach on the example of Fairchild), the company released Channel F System II. The name Atari chose to take away the popularity of the console Fairchild, originally bore the name VES. Commercial success, comparable to Atari, Nintendo and Sega, the console did not receive. In total, twenty-six cartridges were released for the first version, sometimes with several games, and six for the second.
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The cartridge as a gaming software carrier was developed by Jerry Lawson, an engineer at Fairchild Semiconductors. His love for science was instilled in him by his father, who worked at the docks, but constantly read. One of the first gifts made by Jerry was “irish mail” - a mixture of a trolley and an ATV. A little later, Jerry already had his own radio station in the room, then he sold several self-made radios. As a teenager, he repaired electronics throughout the city. Prior to Fairchild, he worked at Grumman Electric, Faircraft, and Kaiser Electronics, and at Fairchild he was assigned to work as a team to create a set-top box from the company's vice president.
Minute gameplay. Tanchiki - in the fifth minute
A drop of advertising.
By the way, the prototype game controller for the Fairchild Channel F was also made by Lawson.
Fairchild Semiconductor was one of the key companies in Silicon Valley in the 1960s: it was her developers who created the world's first integrated circuit suitable for mass production. Six months after its founding, the company began to make a profit: the first was a deal with IBM selling hundreds of transistors, one hundred fifty dollars each.
In the 1970s, Robert Neuss, one of the company's employees, developed the eight-bit Fairchild F8 processor. Based on this processor, they built a game console Fairchild Channel F, which in 1976 went on sale at a price of 169.95 dollars. In the console there were two built games - Pong and Hockey. Later, in order to compete with Atari's VCS (they also started using cartridges in it, having seen the effectiveness of this approach on the example of Fairchild), the company released Channel F System II. The name Atari chose to take away the popularity of the console Fairchild, originally bore the name VES. Commercial success, comparable to Atari, Nintendo and Sega, the console did not receive. In total, twenty-six cartridges were released for the first version, sometimes with several games, and six for the second.
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The cartridge as a gaming software carrier was developed by Jerry Lawson, an engineer at Fairchild Semiconductors. His love for science was instilled in him by his father, who worked at the docks, but constantly read. One of the first gifts made by Jerry was “irish mail” - a mixture of a trolley and an ATV. A little later, Jerry already had his own radio station in the room, then he sold several self-made radios. As a teenager, he repaired electronics throughout the city. Prior to Fairchild, he worked at Grumman Electric, Faircraft, and Kaiser Electronics, and at Fairchild he was assigned to work as a team to create a set-top box from the company's vice president.
Minute gameplay. Tanchiki - in the fifth minute
A drop of advertising.
By the way, the prototype game controller for the Fairchild Channel F was also made by Lawson.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/376719/
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