Ed Smith is the renowned African American vintage video game and personal computer designer.

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Ed's story of overcoming insurmountable odds growing up in Brooklyn during the 60s to design video games and personal computers is shared around the world

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This site hosts photos, audio podcasts and video interviews with many of the prominent historians in technology.

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Ed Smith with The Imagination Machine II at the 1979 Consumer Electronics Show

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Watch the historic interview with Ed and Dag Spicer of the Computer History Museum in California as Ed recounts his time at APF Electronics

Watch the recent podcast from the Strong National Museum of Play where Ed is interviewed by the video game curators here