PatsyPorker

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I'm an aspiring illustrator, who likes comics, and animation. I’m going to stream art, gaming, and occasionally work on game dev stuff too. I was meetcutegames on twitter. No Terfs, no Swerfs, No Fascists


Hemlocks
@Hemlocks

i just missed it but yesterday was the birthday of Jerry Lawson, a self taught electronics hobbyist and genius who designed the Fairchild Channel F in 1976: the first home video games console to use removable cartridges. his influence on the industry is impossible to overstate.

and he designed an 8-way joystick AND the first pause button for a game console! did you know he also used to build walkie talkies and sell them as a child? what a god.

even though his work on the Channel F is probably the thing that most effects the average person here, he had quite a life/career; here's an interesting interview with the man a couple of years before his too-early death in 2011.


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