Comments on: Inventor portrait: Ralph Baer http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/07/inventor-portrait-ralph-baer.html Wed, 22 May 2013 01:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Allen Cobb http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/07/inventor-portrait-ralph-baer.html#comment-47655 Allen Cobb Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:12:53 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=6535#comment-47655 Kudos to Ralph! I headed firmware development at Western Technologies, originator of the first LCD game watch, and the Vectrex all-in-one console (furthered by Datascan, General Consumer Electronics, and Milton Bradley), but that was all more than a decade after Baer’s Odyssey, which predated even Mattel’s Electronic Football LED game.

As for computer fonts — thank heaven we don’t have to look at OCR-A and OCR-B any more. Or MICA fonts (although MICA is still used on checks, with magnetic ink).

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