Fairchild Channel F
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The Fairchild Channel F, short for "Channel Fun", is a home video game console, the first to be based on a microprocessor and to use ROM cartridges instead of having games built in. It was released by
Channel F and its two controllers
SABA Videoplay
Nordmende Color TelePlay μP
Adman Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer
Atari 2600
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The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released c. September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System, it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games
Fairchild Channel F
…The Fairchild Channel F sold only about 350,000 units before Fairchild sold the technology to Zircon International in 1979, trailing well behind the Atari 2600. The system was discontinued in 1983. In the 1950s, Fairchild Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, became a leader in the…
The first Stella prototype on display at the Computer History Museum
The second VCS model has lighter plastic molding and shielding, and a more angular shape, than the 1977 launch model.
Starting in 1980, the VCS has only four front switches and a capital-letters logotype.
CX30 paddle