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ATARI 2600 VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM
1980 Sears Telegames Video Arcade
The Atari 2600 was released as the Atari Video Computer System, or ATARI VCS in December of 1977 for around $250.  Atari Corp also established a licensing deal with Sears to sell the same games and identical hardware under the "Sears Telegames Video Arcade" brand - such as my Sears Telegames Light Sixer to the right.  It was one of the longest running 8-bit consoles running from 1977 all the way to 1991 when the original Atari folded. The system is based on a 1.19 MHz MOS Technology 6507 CPU, 128 BYTES of RAM, no FPU, no GPU, everything on the system was done in real time. Given the limitations, that's quite impressive what this console achieved. The 1980 Sears Telegames Light Sixer to the right was bought for $5.00 on E-bay in 2001 via a glitched E-bay auction.  It's amazing to think this thing is over 40 years old and still performs - if not a little better - than it did brand new.  It's unmodified, there's no Composite/S-Video/RCA mods, bone-stock, as it came from Atari. Every video I make with it is done over RF, yes, that clean signal is RF. Surprising huh?
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