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Jerry Lawson was the original lead singer, arranger and producer of the a cappella group the Persuasions. In the 1970s, with Lawson on lead vocals, the Persuasions had five albums in the Billboard Top R&B Albums charts and four in the Billboard 200 charts: We Came to Play (1971) – No. 32, Billboard R&B; No. 189, Billboard 200
Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer.Besides being one of the first African-American computer engineers in Silicon Valley, Lawson was also known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console, leading the team that refined ROM cartridges for durable used as commercial video game cartridges.
Interview with designer Jerry Lawson; MobyGames list Archived 2020-01-26 at the Wayback Machine of Channel F games; Channel F wiki programming and electronics as well as a gallery of labels, instructions, and boxes. Patent: Cartridge programmable video game apparatus US 4095791 A
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lawson began his career in Silicon Valley and joined the Fairchild Semiconductor in 1970. He developed the first home gaming system with interchangeable game cartridges ...
USC Games has announced an endowment named for Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer who created the first console to store video games on cartridges. USC fund for Black and Indigenous students honors ...
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Jerry Lawson (engineer) (1940–2011), American electronic engineer and videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson (musician) (1944–2019), American singer, producer, musical arranger, and performer Jerry Lawson (runner) (born 1966), former American long-distance runner
John Draper was a member of the club, as was Jerry Lawson (creator of the first cartridge-based video game system, Fairchild Channel F). [13] Li-Chen Wang, developer of Palo Alto Tiny Basic and graphics software for the Cromemco Dazzler, was a club member, and Lee Felsenstein was moderator of the club meetings.