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Company · Software · founded 1982

Video Soft

Santa Clara software company incorporated in May 1982 by Jerry Lawson after he left Fairchild. It made software for the Atari 2600 and closed about five years later.

Of the 1 person here linked to Video Soft, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. 1 of them also appear at Fairchild Semiconductor. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at Video Soft

Founder

Role

Founder, 1982
Source · medium confidence. Source conflict on the start. Wikipedia says incorporated May 1982 and closed about five years later; the narrative in this file says he left Fairchild in 1980 to start it. Wikipedia's year is used and no end year is set.
Past
Technology 8 / 9
Gerald "Jerry" Lawson
Lead engineer, Fairchild Channel F; inventor of the video game cartridge system
working-class · outsider · some college

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