Gerald Lawson dies at 70; engineer brought cartridge-based video game consoles to lifeProbably only important to those remaining intact geeks who went through adolescence in the 70's and 80's.
His mother saw to it that he received a good education.
"When she went to a school, she would interview the teachers, the principal, and if they didn't pass her test, I didn't go to that school," he said in a 2009 interview with the website Vintage Computing and Gaming.
A photo of black scientist and inventor George Washington Carver on the wall next to his desk in the first grade -- and a comment by his teacher -- made a lasting impact on young Lawson.
"She said, 'This could be you,'" he recalled in the 2009 interview. "Now, the point I'm getting at is, this kind of influence is what led me to feel, 'I want to be a scientist. I want to be something.'" While growing up, he made and sold walkie-talkies, built an amateur radio station in the housing project his family lived in and repaired TVs at different shops.
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