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He licensed his new invention to [[Cinematronics]], a pioneering arcade game developer, based in El Cajon, California that had its heyday in the era of vector display games, who released it in 1977 as [[wikipedia:Space Wars|Space Wars]]{{fileref|Syzygy US 01.pdf|page=4}}. Discontent with the royalties received Larry quit Cinematronics taking with him  the "Vectorbeam System"{{ref|http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3a-ud4rIanQ/U8VTdNcXHHI/AAAAAAAADEY/A4OnvHj1Ung/s1600/lr1.PNG}} in the Spring of 1978 to form his own company called  
 
He licensed his new invention to [[Cinematronics]], a pioneering arcade game developer, based in El Cajon, California that had its heyday in the era of vector display games, who released it in 1977 as [[wikipedia:Space Wars|Space Wars]]{{fileref|Syzygy US 01.pdf|page=4}}. Discontent with the royalties received Larry quit Cinematronics taking with him  the "Vectorbeam System"{{ref|http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3a-ud4rIanQ/U8VTdNcXHHI/AAAAAAAADEY/A4OnvHj1Ung/s1600/lr1.PNG}} in the Spring of 1978 to form his own company called  
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[[wikipedia:Vectorbeam|Vectorbeam]]{{fileref|Syzygy US 01.pdf|page=4}} (named after his creation) but after facing huge financial problems and being pressed to sell the Patents of his invention by Cinematronics Larry finally gave up and sold the company with the patents back to them in 1979.
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[[wikipedia:Vectorbeam|Vectorbeam]]{{fileref|Syzygy US 01.pdf|page=4}}{{fileref|CashBox US 1979-01-13.pdf|page=29}} (named after his creation) but after facing huge financial problems and being pressed to sell the Patents of his invention by Cinematronics Larry finally gave up and sold the company with the patents back to them in 1979.
  
 
After exiting the video game field, Larry founded Sierra Systems in 1980, producing{{ref|https://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of_26.html}} embedded systems development tools, one of them, the [[Sierra 68000 C Compiler]], was largely used in the early 90's in 68000-based applications ranging from navigational systems to printer applications and video games.
 
After exiting the video game field, Larry founded Sierra Systems in 1980, producing{{ref|https://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of_26.html}} embedded systems development tools, one of them, the [[Sierra 68000 C Compiler]], was largely used in the early 90's in 68000-based applications ranging from navigational systems to printer applications and video games.

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Sierra Systems
Founded: 1980
Headquarters:
Oakland, California, USA

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Sierra Systems is a company founded in 1980 in Oakland, California by Electrical Engineer, Inventor and Video Games Industry pionner Larry Rosenthal[1][2] (Lawrence David Rosenthal).

Larry was a 17 years old student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), when he saw in 1962, for the first time Spacewar! running on a PDP-1 Computer. Impressed with what he saw Larry created in 1973 his own processor and computer[3] built with surplus parts obtained from a run-down store near the Oakland airport called Mike Quinn Electronics[4] thus creating his home version of Spacewar!. He called his invention the Vectorbeam System[5], which turned to be the first coin-op video game to make use of a vector display.

He licensed his new invention to Cinematronics, a pioneering arcade game developer, based in El Cajon, California that had its heyday in the era of vector display games, who released it in 1977 as Space Wars[6]. Discontent with the royalties received Larry quit Cinematronics taking with him the "Vectorbeam System"[7] in the Spring of 1978 to form his own company called Vectorbeam[6][8] (named after his creation) but after facing huge financial problems and being pressed to sell the Patents of his invention by Cinematronics Larry finally gave up and sold the company with the patents back to them in 1979.

After exiting the video game field, Larry founded Sierra Systems in 1980, producing[9] embedded systems development tools, one of them, the Sierra 68000 C Compiler, was largely used in the early 90's in 68000-based applications ranging from navigational systems to printer applications and video games.

Currently, Larry Rosenthal trades as KeyRinger, LLC., focusing in the sale of one of his last inventions, a lost key finder and remote control locator called KeyRinger™.


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References

  1. ↑ http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.pt/2012/11/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of.html
  2. ↑ [ http://www.vectorlist.org/Vectorlist/1997/08/0229.html http://www.vectorlist.org/Vectorlist/1997/08/0229.html]
  3. ↑ http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QhFAsymdwNk/U8VTZdYBR5I/AAAAAAAADEM/zi7Ine41IrM/s1600/lr.PNG
  4. ↑ http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.pt/2013/07/dave-needle-and-jerry-lawon-two-early.html
  5. ↑ https://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/rats2.jpg
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 File:Syzygy US 01.pdf, page 4
  7. ↑ http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3a-ud4rIanQ/U8VTdNcXHHI/AAAAAAAADEY/A4OnvHj1Ung/s1600/lr1.PNG
  8. ↑ File:CashBox US 1979-01-13.pdf, page 29
  9. ↑ https://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of_26.html
  10. ↑ File:Patent Assignment Cover Sheet 2013-12-12 (United States Patent and Trademark Office).pdf, page 10
  11. ↑ http://keyringer.com/ (Wayback Machine: 2003-06-18 02:59)
  12. ↑ File:Patent US8451127.pdf, page 10
  13. ↑ File:TheNationalLocksmith US 2003-12.pdf, page 45
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