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Saba launches several products designed by the well-known Philippe Starck (at the time, Thomson Consumer Electronics Chief Creative Director), with, among others: “Jim Nature” (1994), a portable Television set made of recycled high-density wood with a unique design, now exhibited as example of 20th Century design in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) of New York, and “Oye-Oye” a small. Saba Videoplay Germany According to the description of the US unit, it seems to be a combination of the Channel F System 1 and System 2. It is quite big, all black, and it features the storage compartment for the controllers. A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Sweden, Adman Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer in the UK, the SABA Videoplay, ITT Telematch Processor and Nordmende Color TelePlay µP from Germany, and the Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco/Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.

A Fairchild Channel F in a museum.

History[edit]

Jerry Lawson[edit]

Fairchild Semiconductor Engineer Jerry Lawson made an early arcade cabinet called Demolition Derby, which prompted Fairchild Semiconductor to quietly expand into the game industry.^[1]^[2] Lawson made the first real game cartridges, which contained software and could expand the RAM of the System.^[3]^[2] Because of this Jerry Lawson is recognized as one of the most important figures in early gaming technology history for his invention of the cartridge, as well as one of the first African American engineers in the video game industry.^[4]^[5]

Laswson's philosophy on games favored games that were skillful and grew the player.^[6]^[7]

Launch[edit]

Pro Football Channel F.

The Fairchild Channel F was released in November of 1976 at a cost of $169.95.^[1]^[2]

Legacy[edit]

The Fairchild Channel F was discontinued in 1984.^[8] Around 250,000 Channel F consoles were sold.^[6]

Following the Fairchild Channel F, Jerry Lawson would pursue other ventures, including an early attempt at console based network play.^[9]

Technology[edit]

The Fairchild Channel F used Fairchild Semiconductor's own F8 processor.^[2] It could process about 0.14 million instructions per second (MIPS).^[10]

The Fairchild Channel F had 64 bytes of RAM and 2kb of video RAM.^[7]

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Games[edit]

A novelty at the time, some Fairchild Channel F games supported computer players, as well as pause functionality.^[11]

Gallery[edit]

Consoles[edit]

Fairchild Channel F
Fairchild Channel F II

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Cartridge[edit]

Black Jack cartridge.
Daftar persamaan transistor. Cartridge contact pins.
Cartridge internals, showing the printed circuit board and two integrated circuits. Nakamichi cd 45z manual.

SABA Videoplay[edit]

SABA Videoplay, the German version of the Fairchild Channel F
Controller internals.

Technology[edit]

The Fairchild F3850 CPU, the heart of the F8.
PCB for the derivative Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer.

References[edit]

Wikipedia has related information at Fairchild Channel F

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↑ ^a^bOrland, Kyle. 'Obituary: Fairchild Channel F Creator Jerry Lawson' (in en). www.gamasutra.com. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/124369/Obituary_Fairchild_Channel_F_Creator_Jerry_Lawson.php. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
↑ ^a^b^c^d'Jerry Lawson And The Fairchild Channel F; Father Of The Video Game Cartridge'. Hackaday. 14 July 2020. https://hackaday.com/2020/07/14/jerry-lawson-and-the-fairchild-channel-f-father-of-the-video-game-cartridge/. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
↑'Jerry Lawson, Inventor of Modern Game Console, Dies at 70' (in en-us). Wired. https://www.wired.com/2011/04/jerry-lawson-dies/. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
↑Laurel, Capitol Technology University 11301 Springfield Road. 'Gerald' (in en). https://www.captechu.edu/blog/gerald-jerry-lawson-inventor-of-first-home-gaming-console-interchangeable-cartridge.
↑'Jerry Lawson: The Black Man Who Revolutionized Gaming As We Know It - IGN' (in en). https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/22/jerry-lawson-the-black-man-who-revolutionized-gaming-as-we-know-it.
↑ ^a^bSnider, Mike. 'Before Nintendo and Atari: How a black engineer changed the video game industry forever'. USA TODAY. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/02/27/how-black-engineer-forever-changed-video-game-consoles/4752682002/. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
↑ ^a^b'VC&G » VC&G Interview: Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer'. https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/545/vcg-interview-jerry-lawson-black-video-game-pioneer. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
↑'Fairchild Channel F / Channel F System II (1976 – 1984)'. 24 January 2018. https://obsoletemedia.org/fairchild-channel-f/. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
↑Ltd, Earl G. Graves (in en). Black Enterprise. Earl G. Graves, Ltd.. https://books.google.com/books?id=N6pacvfrf0wC&pg=PA44&dq=APF-MP1000&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjEg5yw-LHtAhUKjVkKHdC0ApMQ6AEwCHoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=APF-MP1000&f=false. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
↑Murnane, Kevin. 'From Pong To Playstation: The 40-Year Evolution Of Gaming Processing Power' (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2016/04/25/charting-forty-years-of-power-ratings-for-video-game-consoles-and-arcade-machines/#63dfddee2472. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
↑'Early Home Video Game History: Making Television Play - The Strong National Museum of Play' (in en). https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/early-home-video-game-history-making-television-play/1gISMn3lzjV8JQ. Retrieved 25 October 2020.

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