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		It was released by Fairchild Semiconductor (ostensibly by their parent company though) in August 1976 at a cost of $169.95.
		The Channel F was based on the Fairchild F8 CPU, invented by Robert Noyce before he left Fairchild to start his own company, Intel.
		The F8 was so early that the process technology of the era couldn't fit all the needed circuitry onto a single chip, and the F8 was in fact a "family" of chips that had to be wired together to form a complete CPU.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/c/ch/channel_f.html (615 words)

	Fairchild F8 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In (The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures) computing, the F8 was an 8-bit (Integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system) microprocessor created by (additional info and facts about Fairchild Semiconductor) Fairchild Semiconductor.
		The F8 was released in a single-chip implementation (the (additional info and facts about Mostek) Mostek 3870) in 1977.
		The F8 was used in the (additional info and facts about Fairchild Channel F) Fairchild Channel F Video Entertainment System in 1976.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/fairchild_f8.htm (267 words)

	Aero: Fairchild
		Fairchild developed a camera where the shutter was inside the lens and which produced much clearer images.
		Fairchild also built the equivalent Model 71 in Canada from 1930, which evolved into the Super 71 in 1936 that could hold a ton of freight or eight passengers.
		Fairchild took on the task in 1941 of producing military transports designed specifically for that purpose rather than by converting a civilian model to military purposes, as was customary.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Fairchild/Aero25.htm (1827 words)

	Fairchild Channel F
		Started in 1957 by Sherman Mills Fairchild under the umbrella of his Fairchild Semiconductor in itself was well known as one of the pioneers in semiconductor research (Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, co-founders of Intel got their start there).
		Fairchild responded in kind by changing the name of their console to the Fairchild Channel F. However, the blocky graphics were starting to show their age already (if you can believe that) when compared against the 2600's higher resolution blocky graphics.
		By 1978, Fairchild had only released 21 cartridges for the Channel F, and the consoled that had changed home gaming consoles for ever was dead after only a year and 4 months on the market.
	www.classicgaming.com /gamingmuseum/channelf.html (1244 words)

	ipedia.com: Fairchild Semiconductor Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fairchild Semiconductor introduced the first commercially available integrated circuit, and would go on to become one of the major players in the evolution of Silicon Valley in the 1960s.
		Fairchild Semiconductor introduced the first commercially available integrated circuit (although at almost the same time as one from Texas Instruments), and would go on to become one of the major players in the evolution of Silicon Valley in the 1960s.
		Their first transistors were soon on the market, and the first batch of 100 was sold to IBM for $150 a piece.
	www.ipedia.com /fairchild_semiconductor.html (766 words)

	CPU-World: Fairchild F8 (3850) microcontroller family
		Fairchild F8 or 3850 is a multi-chip microcontroller.
		The F8 is based on the 3850 chip - this chip integrates 8-bit ALU, 64-bytes scratchpad RAM and two 8-bit I/O ports.
		One-chip implementation of F8, Mostek 3870, was released in 1977.
	www.cpu-world.com /CPUs/3850 (124 words)

	Fairchild Channel F - Ultimate Console Database at Hawanja.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Redesigned Fairchild System II This is it, the very first game system with interchangeable cartridges that contained Roms and not just switches that changed the internals to make a game (like the Odyssey 1.) Since it is the very very first lots of things can be forgiven, like those funky ass controllers.
		They can be used as a joystick and rolled like a paddle (for pong games.) No fire buttons, you had to push the top knob down to "fire." Looks functional enough but must take some getting used to.
		A year later Fairchild sold the rights to the system to a company called Zircon, who made the System II and also exported the console throughout northern Europe.
	hawanja.com /fairchild_channel_f.htm (240 words)

	Great moments in microprocessor history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Observing this trend, Fairchild Semiconductor's director of Research and Development Gordon Moore observed in 1965 that the density of elements in ICs was doubling annually, and predicted that the trend would continue for the next ten years.
		Fairchild was acquired by National Semiconductor in the 1980s, and spun off again as an independent company in 1997.
		Some individual chips that are less-often mentioned in those histories include the Fairchild f8 which was included in the Channel F home video system.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/library/pa-microhist.html?ca=dgr-lnxw06MicroHistory (6009 words)

	Fairchild F8 Computer Encyclopedia Enterprise Resource Directory Complete Guide to Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fairchild F8 Computer Encyclopedia Enterprise Resource Directory Complete Guide to Internet
		The use of the ISAR register allowed a subroutine to be entered without saving a bunch of registers, speeding execution - the ISAR would just be changed.
		The windowing concept was useful, but only the register pointed to by the ISAR could be accessed - to access other registers the ISAR was incremented or decremented through the window.
	www.jaysir.com /computer-encyclopedia/f/fairchild-f8-computer-terms.htm (179 words)

	Programmable alarm clock - Patent 4301524
		The Fairchild F8 Microcomputer System is a versatile family of components comprising a central processing unit to which is added associated components, such as program storage units, memory interfaces, peripheral input/output units, and memories, in accordance with the requirements of the user.
		In the nomenclature adopted for the F8 Microcomputer System, ports 82 and 84 correspond to F8 I/O ports "0" and "1", respectively, and ports 86 and 88 correspond to F8 ports A and B, respectively.
		The latching input to each of the drivers 100-106 is received from a 4-line decoder 108 which receives its binary inputs from bit lines 4 and 5 of the port 82 and the bit line 0 of the port 84.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4301524.html (3590 words)

	Fairchild Channel F - TheBestLinks.com - Atari, Atari 2600, CPU, Emulator, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fairchild Channel F - TheBestLinks.com - Atari, Atari 2600, CPU, Emulator,...
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		The Fairchild Channel F was the world's first cartridge-based video game console.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Fairchild_Channel_F.html (680 words)

	Fairchild F8 - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Fairchild F8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fairchild F8 - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Fairchild F8 Fairchild F8 - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Fairchild F8.
		Here you will find more informations about Fairchild F8.
		The orginal Fairchild F8 article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Fairchild-F8.html (273 words)

	Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present: Forgotten/Innovative Designs before the Great Dark Cloud
		Fairchild ended up as part of National Semiconductor, before being spun off again in 1997.
		Intersil was eventually bought by Harris Semiconductors, which produces versions of the 8088 and 8086, 1802, and 68HC05.
		However, the NOVA (1969) was a more mature design (by PDP-8 designer Edson DeCastro, who came to Data General from DEC).
	www.microprocessor.sscc.ru /great/s2.html (2235 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		Fairchild released twenty-six different cartridges for the system, with up to four games being on each cartridge.
		In this respect Fairchild started a trend in trying to boost game sales by numbering them and so appealing to consumers who wanted to complete their collection.
		Fairchild responded to the Atari VCS by changing the name of their console to the `Fairchild Channel F' from it's original name of the `Fairchild Video Entertainment System', but this did not raise flagging sales.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?st=2&c=890 (500 words)

	Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present
		Initially similar to the Fairchild F8, the Intel 8048 was also designed as a microcontroller rather than a microprocessor - low cost and small size was the main goal.
		The current window or stack frame is indicated by a stack pointer (a modern version of the ISAR register in the Fairchild F8 CPU), a pointer to the caller's frame is stored in the current frame, like in an ordinary stack (directly supporting stack languages like C, a CISC-like philosophy).
		The Clipper C100 was developed by Fairchild, later sold to workstation maker Intergraph, which took over chip development (produced the C300 in 1988) until it decided it couldn't compete in processor technology, and switched to Intel 80x86-based processors (Fairchild itself was bought by National Semiconductor).
	laguna.fmedic.unam.mx /~daniel/up/docs/varios/cpu.html (16694 words)

	Fairchild Channel F Videogame System from 1976 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fairchild Channel F was released in August 1976 and was the first video game system to feature interchangeable cartridges containing ROM chips.
		The system derived its name from the Fairchild F8 microprocessor, which was one of the first chips in the 8-Bit category that also included the Intel 8080A, Zilog Z80, Motorola MC6800, Rockwell PPS-8, MOS Technology 6502, and RCA COSMAC.
		Technology was advancing so rapidly that the Fairchild Channel F game system was obsolete almost from the time of introduction.
	www.retrocomputing.net /parts/f/fairchild/f8s/docs/fairchild-channel-f.html (170 words)

	F8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The DMSP F8 satellite, launched in June 1987, is in a near circular, sun synchronous, polar orbit.
		F8 - Mentioned in 2 sentences with hemB (5-aminolevulinate dehydratase = porphobilinogen synthase).
		F8 James Hugh Bell, born September 9, 1866, died September 1, 1928.
	www.ad999.com /?q=f8 (676 words)

	Museum
		In the beginning of microprocessor production Mostek was a second source of Fairchilds F8.
		Fairchild designed the 3859, which was a simple combination of the 3850 CPU and 3851 PSU on a single chip.
		Therefore, Fairchild dropped the 3859 and became a second source for the 3870.
	www.cpu-museum.com /3870_e.htm (148 words)

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		The manual had a matrix of what operations could be done between which registers (invalid example, but indicative: to load register D from memory, you would first have to load register A, then copy that to register B, then to D).
		It was the first microprocessor I considered for hobby use, primarily because one of the trade magazines, IIRC EDN, had a sequence of articles, I believe in 1976, organized as an introductory course in microprocessors.
		I never investigated it because by Of course no one yet has mentioned the Fairchild Channel F video game system that I believe pre-dated the Atari 2600 (or was very close to it at any rate).
	neil.franklin.ch /Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19990408_Fairchild_F8_any_info_or_computers_using_this_Chip (1851 words)

	Lowell O. Turner's Home Page - Fairchild F8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The F8 is actually a number of chips.
		Those units are actually single chip microcomputers and would be an alternative to the F8 rather than a supporting unit.
		The F8 system is such that memory addressing logic will be duplicated if more than one memory device is in a system.
	www.nyx.net /~lturner/public_html/Fairchild_F8.html (579 words)

	E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fairchild F8 was the first 8 bit.
		First the F8 set didn't predate the 8008.
		It was however the first minimum chipset part to open the marrket to part list the 3780, 8048 and other single chips MCUs.
	www.classiccmp.org /pipermail/cctalk/1999-July/129773.html (144 words)

	Fairchild Channel F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		> The Atari 2600 beat them out of business though, pitty, the Fairchild had > some of the coolest joysticks (controls were left, right, up, down, twist > left, twist right, fire (and I think push down)) I have 3 of old the Fairchild F8's in my collection..
		Purchased the one new in I think 1976, and as I recall the biggest reason for their downfall was the Joysticks themselves, they were very easy to break, they twisted and because you held them by making a fist around the joystick housing and twisted with the other hand they easily snapped apart..
		I would be interested in knowing if there were any real computers made using the Fairchild F8 computer chip...
	www.classiccmp.org /pipermail/cctalk/1998-October/109767.html (422 words)

	Mostek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mostek's microprocessors were second source versions of the Zilog Z80 and the Fairchild F8.
		United Technologies bought Mostek in 1983 and sold Mostek to SGS-ATES in 1985.
		Fairchild F8 (3850), Zilog Z80 (Zilog 8400 = MK3880)
	www.antiquetech.com /companies/Mostek.htm (81 words)

	FAI from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Next: FAIR, Fairchild F8, fall back, fall forward, fall over, fall through
		Next: Fairchild F8, fall back, fall forward, fall over, fall through
		The processor itself had no address bus - program and data memory access were contained in separate units, which reduced the number of pins and the associated cost.
	www.instantweb.com /d/dictionary/foldoc.cgi?query=FAI (313 words)

	ClassicGaming.com - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By 1978, the videogame market had proven to be profitable, and thanks to efforts by Fairchild and Atari, programmable consoles were all the rage.
		on my boss's time, but unknown to him, I developed a control system for a TV using the Fairchild F8 [microprocessor] and a game for the TV (four in a row) also using the F8 (1K memory).
		I demonstrated this all to the big-wigs at Philips in 1976 and suddenly became the super expert on microprocessor applications.
	www.classicgaming.com /features/articles/shuttleworth (557 words)

	AtariAge Forums -> Channel F
		For example, since the ROM data bus is going to be 16 bits wide even though only 10 bits are needed by the F8, the other 6 bits could be used to assist in address calculation.
		In any event, my recollection was that one of the complications of the F8 addressing device was the need for an ALU to compute branch addresses.
		From: Austin, TX The F8 data bus is strictly 8-bit.
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=59248&st=75 (2599 words)

	Halt and Catch Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I tried my hand at homebrew programming for the (Fairchild) Channel F console, and it's hard.
		the program counter is actually a register in the special Fairchild F8 ROM and RAM and other "nifty" Fairchild components.
		Seems quite brain-damaged to me, but then again I wasn't working for Fairchild in the mid 1970's so there may be some extenuating circumstances.
	haltcatchfire.blogspot.com (1454 words)

	Sean Riddle's Home Page - Channel F specs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Channel F console used the Fairchild F8 processor running at the color burst frequency divided by 2 (1.79MHz) and had 2 program storage units (that processor's equivalent to ROM), giving it a 2K BIOS that contained the built-in games Hockey and Tennis as well as some subroutines other carts could use.
		The F8 CPU has 64 scratchpad registers, so there was no RAM, except for the 8K x 2 bits for its 128 x 64 pixel screen (not all the pixels were visible).
		The 2 bits per pixel gave 4 colors, but it used a trick to change between 4 palettes that gave a total of 8 colors.
	members.cox.net /seanriddle/chanfspecs.html (430 words)

	AtariAge Forums -> DASM 2.20.10
		DASM now supports the Fairchild F8 processor, thanks to Thomas Mathys, and there will (eventually) be Channel F header files available from the DASM homepage...
		"ds" is actually an F8 instruction, so it definitely can't be used in F8 source programs, but I'm not sure about other processors...
		this is a file that describes some things that are different in f8 mode.
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=59859 (711 words)

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