I've had the pleasure and honor to meet with Ralph Baer several times at
his home and also numerous phone calls. He is a true engineer at
heart and he just loves to create new concepts and idea's. He still
has an active test bench and to this day is still designing and creating
products. Plus he makes himself, by hand, replica's of his original
"Brown Boxes" for museums and exhibit's. Now in his 80's he's
still
going strong. I may be an Atari guy and you'd think I'd be a fan of
Nolan Bushnell, but Nolan is just a business man, he just sees the money
side of things, it was the creative people around him that made Atari,
Pizzatime, Androbot's and his other companies what they were. Ralph is
the exact opposite, he is the tireless creator and engineer, always
coming up with something new and fun, kudo's Ralph, you deserve it!
Curt
Paxton Hoag wrote:
This is an interesting read and some pics of the very
first video games.
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3159462
Found the link on slashdot.
Paxton