@ChristiJunior@neckbeard.xyz @rasterman Time to give up your Switch because a black man invented the game cartridge.
@Bro-Drillard @rasterman @ChristiJunior@neckbeard.xyz He didn't invent the ROM cartridge itself but he was the first to use them in consoles. So, he invented the game cartridge.
@Bro-Drillard @xianc78 @ChristiJunior @rasterman
Two engineers working for a tiny startup called Alpex, Wallace Kirschner and Lawrence Haskel, invented the game cartridge in 1975. Pre-1975 video games were hardwired to play just a single game. Kirschner and Haskel had the idea to store programs on ROM chips. Then they put the chips on circuit boards and put them in plastic project boxes they bought at Radio Shack to protect them.
Alpex couldn’t market their fledgling game console on their own. So they sold the design to electronics maker Fairchild.
Black History Month is officially cancelled!
>guy who didn't invent game cartidge: gushing wikipedia page because black
>guys who did: nothing
*pats black man on the head condescendly*
"leading the team that pioneered the commercial video game cartridge"
so he just took credit for that, got it
@xianc78 @ChristiJunior @rasterman Did you know a black man invented the light bulb (and probably light in general)? In order to maximize and eternalize ethnic credit, he fashioned the shape of the bulb after the silhouette of his head.
@xianc78 @ChristiJunior @rasterman
Time to give up your Switch because a black man invented the game cartridge.
from Wiki:
he led the development of the Fairchild Channel F console, released in 1976 and specifically designed to use swappable game cartridges based on technology licensed from Alpex
“technology licensed from Alpex”
Doesn’t look like he invented it. I can keep muh Switch.