An Atari 2600 prototype. Donated by one of the team responsible. I don't know why the board marked memory has dozens of chips, except each may have had a small amount of code to test a function.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/4EJDT
1975 Atari VCS Prototype
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Re: 1975 Atari VCS Prototype
Thats really cool. I wonder what happens when you turn that thing on?
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Re: 1975 Atari VCS Prototype
scotland wrote:I don't know why the board marked memory has dozens of chips
From the first photo:
Developers wrote and assembled software on a DEC PDP-11 minicomputer, and then downloaded it for testing.
All that memory's emulating a cartridge ROM.