**************Re: Mattel intellivision

From: Ed Sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Fri Apr 2 12:46:35 2004

is there any Mattel manuals or sales lit. out there online? we need some
visuals to go with the machine we are adding to the display here...

thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc
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From: "Witchy" <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: Mattel intellivision


> Hi folks,
>
> Anyone have any troubleshooting expertise on these things? Got one of my
> spares out for sale and typically the bloody thing is pretty dead. I say
> *pretty* dead 'cos I get the cart intro screen on power up, but with the
> computer module attached I get nothing. I've left it powered up for 15
> minutes in case it's a warm up problem but that makes matters worse :)
>
> According to the service manual I have to replace either the RAM or CPU in
> that order, but since spares for those will come from working
intellivisions
> I don't want to do that! Also, off the top of my head I can't think of any
> other videogames that use the General Instruments GI1610 CPU, assuming
it's
> that that's croaked. The RAM is a GI-specific chip too. Spares, anyone?
>
> TIA :)
>
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>
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