There is a story behind every electronic gadget sold on the QVC shopping
channel. This one leads to a ramshackle farmhouse in rural Oregon, which
is the home and circuit design lab of Jeri Ellsworth, a 30-year-old high
school dropout and self-taught computer chip designer.
Ms. Ellsworth has squeezed the entire circuitry of a two-decade-old
Commodore 64 home computer onto a single chip, which she has tucked
neatly into a joystick that connects by a cable to a TV set. Called
the Commodore 64 - the same as the computer system - her device can run
30 video games, mostly sports, racing and puzzles games from the early
1980's, all without the hassle of changing game cartridges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20joystick.html?ex=1261198800&en=0e285af90f620c58&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
