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	Telstar
		Telstar was the first active communications satellite, and the name is used to this day for a number of television broadcasting satellites.
		Telstar was placed in an elliptical orbit (completed once every 2 hours and 37 minutes), rotating at a 45 degree angle above the equator.
		Telstar relayed its first television pictures (of a flag outside its ground station in Andover, Maine) on the date of its launch.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/te/Telstar.html (405 words)

	Coleco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coleco was an amusement company that, among other things, has produced the video game consoles Coleco Telstar and Colecovision.
		But Coleco had been one of the first to place their order, and as a result was one of the only companies to receive their full order.
		In 1989, the assets of Coleco were purchased by Hasbro.
	wikipedia.cas.ilstu.edu /index.php/Coleco (457 words)

	Coleco Telstar - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Telstar is a video game console produced by Coleco which first went on sale in 1976.
		Telstar Ranger - (model 6046, 1977) Four pong games(hockey, handball, tennis, jai alai) and two gun games(target, skeet), fl and white plastic case, includes light gun and separate paddle controllers.
		Telstar Gemini - (1978) Four pinball games and two gun games in color, light gun, two flipper buttons on left and right sides of case, pinball launch button and field adjustment sliders on top, light gun, uses a MOS Technology MPS 7600 chip.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Coleco_Telstar (383 words)

	Coleco
		But Coleco had been one of the first to place their order, and as a result was one of the only companies to receive their full order.
		Coleco produced two very popular lines of games, the "head to head" series of two player sports games, and the mini-arcade series of licensed video arcade titles.
		While the system was quite popular, Coleco hedged their bet on videogames by introducing a line of game cartridges for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/co/coleco.html (445 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Coleco Telstar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Telstar Ranger - (model 6046, 1977) Four PONG variants (hockey, handball, tennis, jai alai) and two gun games(target, skeet), fl and white plastic case, includes revolver-style light gun and separate paddle controllers.
		Telstar Marksman - (model 6136, 1978) Four PONG variants and two gun games in color, larger light gun with removable stock, fixed paddles, uses AY-3-8512 chip.
		Telstar Gemini - (1978) Four pinball games and two light-gun games in color, light gun, two flipper buttons on left and right sides of case, pinball launch button and field adjustment sliders on top, light gun, uses a MOS Technology MPS 7600-004 chip.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Coleco-Telstar (2100 words)

	Coleco Telstar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Telstar is a video game console produced by Coleco which first went on sale in 1976.
		Telstar Ranger - (model 6046, 1977) Four PONG variants (hockey, handball, tennis, jai alai) and two gun games(target, skeet), fl and white plastic case, includes revolver-style light gun and separate paddle controllers.
		Telstar Gemini - (1978) Four pinball games and two light-gun games in color, light gun, two flipper buttons on left and right sides of case, pinball launch button and field adjustment sliders on top, light gun, uses a MOS Technology MPS 7600-004 chip.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coleco_Telstar (558 words)

	Coleco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coleco (1932 - 1989) was a company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company".
		However, General Instrument had underestimated demand, and there were severe shortages; but Coleco had been one of the first to place their order, and as a result was one of the few companies to receive their full order.
		Coleco's strategy was to introduce the Coleco Adam home computer, both as a stand-alone system and as an expansion module to ColecoVision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coleco (754 words)

	Killer Korp Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coleco was run as a family business, and one of the sons, Leonard, set up a little shop.
		So in just the same time that Coleco lost millions by liquidating stock, they also earner 20 millions in profits from their new handhelds which were of better quality than Mattel's.
		Coleco then followed with table top arcades of very popular titles such as Pac-Man. Coleco was also the first company to air competitive TV commercials, differentiating with Mattel's handheld games.
	www.killerkorp.com /coleco (559 words)

	Coleco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But Coleco had been one of the first toplace their order, and as a result was one of the only companies to receive their full order.
		Coleco produced twovery popular lines of games, the "head to head" series of two player sports games, and the mini-arcade series of licensed videoarcade titles.
		While the system was quite popular, Coleco hedged their bet onvideogames by introducing a line of game cartridges for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision.
	www.therfcc.org /coleco-54488.html (415 words)

	Coleco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coleco war ein Hersteller von Unterhaltungselektronik, der unter anderem die Spielkonsolen Coleco Telstar und Colecovision hergestellt hat.
		Da Coleco allerdings als einer der ersten Firmen bestellt hatten, zählte das Unternehmen auch zu den wenigen, die die volle bestellte Menge erhielten.
		Mit der Veröffentlichung der erfolgreichen Colecovision-Konsole kehrte Coleco 1982 in den Spielkonsolenmarkt zurück.
	www.jenskleemann.de /wissen/bildung/wikipedia/c/co/coleco.html (346 words)

	Coleco Telstar Arcade Cartridges
		The Telstar was a video game console produced by Coleco which first went on sale in 1976, which was basically a pong clone.
		Telstar Sportsman - Came with a light gun and two separate paddles
		Telstar Galaxy - came with joysticks and paddles
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Coleco_Telstar_Arcade_Cartridges.html (176 words)

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		Coleco decided to bring out a home version of the game, but the development process was a slow one.
		Coleco was banking on parents' belief that turning the video game machine into a computer would introduce their children to the much more acceptable world of computers.
		Coleco was never able to recoup the lost sales and, in 1984, it withdrew Adam from the market and ended its brief foray into the home computer market.
	www.nemesisworld.com /starcom/coleco.html (1035 words)

	ColecoVision Console Information
		While Coleco managed to survive with its non-electronic toys (such as Cabbage Patch Kids dolls) and their handhelds (which were experiencing some loss of market due to the new consoles with interchangeable games), they needed to get with the times to regain popularity.
		Coleco first showed their new console at the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1982 and shocked the industry (since Coleco hadn't made any home consoles since the Telstar and had not given any warning of this new console).
		Coleco produced a number of devices for the expansion port including a device for playing Atari 2600 games (Expansion Module #1), which caused quite a stir in the industry, and the Super Game Module (Expansion Module #3), which was later released on its own as the Coleco ADAM.
	www.consoledatabase.com /consoleinfo/colecovision/index.html (569 words)

	PONG : Coleco Telstar
		If Coleco became GI's first customer in 1975 because of the story between Ralph Baer, Ed Saks (GI's president) and Arnold Greenberg (Coleco's president), the release of the first Telstar model in 1976 was also another amazing story that Ralph Baer wrote for us.
		Coleco was informed that if they would sign Magnavox’ Licensing Agreement (which they hadn’t done at that point in time), we would be glad to help them.
		When the RFI crew arrived on the roof for further Telstar tests, I slipped one of these toroids over the shielded coax cable coming out of the Telstar unit and took two tight loops through the ring just inside the cabinet...
	www.pong-story.com /coleco_telstar.htm (823 words)

	Killer Korp Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coleco's first endeavour into the video game market came into being after a discussion with Ralph Baer, the inventor of the home console.
		GI became the biggest pong chip manufacturer in the world, with close to 75 other companies also used the same chip set, but since Coleco was the first client, they had all their orders filled and never had a shortage of chips.
		The Coleco Telstar was released in time for Christmas 1976, and once again with the help of Baer.
	www.killerkorp.com /coleco/telstar (418 words)

	Pong-Story : Coleco Telstar systems
		The story of Coleco's Telstar systems started in 1975 when GI made the famous AY-3-8500 PONG chip.
		Thus Coleco became GI’s first and preferred customer for the AY-3-8500 chip around which, as I said, millions of off-shore (HK, Taiwan, etc) games were built (on all of which Sanders/Magnavox collected royalties, by the way).
		The only differences between the Coleco "pong" systems were the number of games, the way the difficulty levels were used, and the type of pictured (color or fl and white).
	www.pong-story.com /coleco.htm (588 words)

	Coleco Telstar - Vetamera.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coleco Telstar var en av de första spelkonsolerna.
		Telstar tillverkades av Coleco och började säljas 1976.
		Telstar Sportsman - 1978, som Colormatic men med ljuspistol.
	www.vetamera.com /Coleco-Telstar (314 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		Like Pong, Telstar could only play video tennis but it retailed at an inexpensive $50 that made it attractive to most families that were on a budget.
		Coleco didn't suffer at all from the shortage.
		If this is common to the first Telstars, this is quite different from most of the other pong systems which offer individual settings.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=665 (334 words)

	Vidgame.net: Coleco Telstar PONG
		The Coleco Telstar was released in June of 1976 for $49.99 USD, barely.
		Coleco had not gotten the Telstar to pass it's initial FCC approval.
		One interesting feature is that the RF cord which is permanately attached (similar to the cord found attached on the Atari 2600) can be stored inside the system by feeding it back through the hole it protrudes out of.
	www.vidgame.net /PONG/TELSTAR.html (313 words)

	Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame Games ARTICLE - The Coleco Story by Ralph Baer
		Coleco personnel had been at the FCC's Radio-Frequency-Interference labs in Maryland for compliance testing of their "Telstar" prototypes the prior Monday......and they had flunked the RFI tests...too much radiation at harmonics (multiples) of the Channel 3 or 4 signals which video games use to get into a TV set via its antenna terminals.
		Coleco had acquired several expensive licenses for the Berenstein Bears, the Smurfs as well as some Dr.Seuss titles and their programmers did a nice job of coming up with suitable graphics and voice-over.
		Coleco recovered courtesy of the ugliest dolls in the world - the Cabbage Patch dolls - Although I tried a few times, I would never be able to place a product idea with Coleco again; electronics had become at no-no at Coleco.
	www.gooddealgames.com /articles/Ralph_Baers_Coleco_Story.html (2483 words)

	mycoleco
		Coleco (a contraction of COnneticut LEather COmpany) was founded in 1932 and originally sold leather supplies to shoemakers.
		Coleco got into the videogame business with the Telstar Arcade (which was basically a Pong clone) in 1976.
		Most Coleco games were solid arcade ports, usually almost indistinguishable from the real thing, and quickly became the hardcore videogamers' system of choice.
	vgcollect.freehosting.net /mycoleco.htm (461 words)

	The History of Football Games - Features at GameSpot
		Coleco entered the console systems market in the summer of 1982, following a lengthy period on the sidelines after the failure of its Telstar-labeled version of Pong in 1976.
		Coleco neatly positioned itself to steal customers away from both Atari and Intellivision, the former by grabbing up the licenses that had become its bread and butter and the latter by developing a lineup of premium sports games.
		Coleco itself reemerged as a toy manufacturer in the later 1980s and made a mint off the Cabbage Patch Doll craze.
	www.gamespot.com /features/6130897/p-4.html (748 words)

	A History of Home Video Games from Atari to Xbox, Playstation and Wii
		Telstar, Coleco's first video game system, was released in 1976 and played only three games with three difficulty levels.
		At least 15 different games were released in two years with the only differences between the "pong" systems being the number of games, the way the difficulty levels were used, and the type of pictured (color or fl and white).
		Released the same year as the original Telstar, the Telstar Classic unit was essentially the same as the Telstar.
	www.thegameconsole.com (2010 words)

	Classic Consoles
		Coleco's classic video game console history is interesting in that it has a beginning and an end but no middle.
		Their early Telstar line of Pong clones was very successful in the 70s but, as the 80s approached, their video game business dwindled.
		Coleco sold the Coleco Telstar line (a whole slew of Pong-clones) throughout the late 1970s.
	www.davesclassicarcade.com /consoles.html (3437 words)

	Coleco Games
		Coleco made some of the most memorable handheld games of the period.
		Coleco actually started out in the 1930-40's making leather craft kits for kids, which sold fairly well because they were based on popular leather-wearing icons of the day like Howdy Doody and Davy Crockett.
		So, in the heat of the DK craze (1982), here was Coleco with the ONLY 2 home versions of Donkey Kong available - one for the colecovision and the other their new tabletop version.
	www.miniarcade.com /coleco/coleco.htm (415 words)

	Coleco Adam computer
		Coleco sold high quality tapes specifically made for the Adam, capable of withstanding the high-speed 20 ips (inches per second) read/write and 80 ips rewind speeds.
		Because of this, it is probably best to use a daisy-wheel supplied by Coleco, although many other daisy-wheels have nearly the same character layout for standardization.
		After the Adam was released in October 1983, Coleco had to cease distribution of the Adam and fix the printer, which was having reliability problems.
	oldcomputers.net /adam.html (683 words)

	Coleco Telstar
		Coleco's first entry in to videogames, and one of the most popular pong systems.
		The unit was based around the General Instruments AY-3-8500 chip, which was a "pong" chip developed by GI (and later licensed for manufacturing by Magnavox who at that time all console makers had to pay royalties to as "inventor" or the home videogame).
		According to his interview given at Pong Story, he had first seen the chip at a demo and recommended it to Coleco president Marvin Greenberg.
	www.classicgaming.com /gamingmuseum/telstar.html (149 words)

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