Hi,
I just got back.
The Channel F is the first programmable color cartidge based video console.
It predates the Atari 2600 by about 1 year (1976). The controllers have 8
degrees of freedom: normal joystic directions plus twisting plus pushing up
or down.
The ISBN fo the Haddock is: 0-89689-098-8
Copyright 1993
The publisher is:
Books Americana, Inc.
P.O. Box 2326
Florence, Alabama 35630
And I still can't believe that the COCO had a 6899E for a processor :)
Francois
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Troutman <mor_at_crl.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Week-end finds
>Max Eskin wrote:
>>
>> Two questions: a) what is a channel F?
>
>It's a video game console. Older than the Atari 2600, I think it was
>the first programmable home system introduced.
>
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Received on Tue Apr 21 1998 - 23:21:37 BST