He later took up electrical engineering and set up his first company, Lexicon, in 1978 at age 31.

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Slashdot caught up with Engineering Librarian and Video Game Archivist Dave Carter and took a look inside the repository, which has curated around 35 classic and current-gen platforms and more than 3, 000 different games.

ENGADGET: University of Michigan's Computer and Video Game Archive houses over 3,000 different games, roughly 35 unique consoles (video)

When I was at University I took a ton of Japanese (1980s) convinced I would end up working for a Japanese company because engineering was my major.

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