I have the main unit with two controllers, power adapter, tv cable and original box.
type game console
country U.S.A
year 1976
os Fairchild
cpu 8bit Fairchild F8
speed 1.78MHz
ram 64 bytes
rom game cartridge
graphic 128 x 64, only
about 102 x 58 visible
on screen
colors 8, only 4 different
per line or black and white
sound beeper
ports cartridge slot
The Fairchild Channel F — The First ROM Cartridge Console
The Fairchild Channel F (Video Entertainment System), released in August 1976, holds a fundamental place in gaming history as the first home game console to use interchangeable ROM cartridges — the format that every game cartridge for the next three decades would follow. Designed by Jerry Lawson at Fairchild Semiconductor, the Channel F used an F8 processor and 102×58 pixel display. Its ”Videocarts” established the template that Atari, Mattel, Coleco, Nintendo, and Sega would all adopt. In Europe the console was sold under the Saba and Luxor brand names, with Luxor distributing it in Scandinavia — giving the Fairchild Channel F a particular significance for Finnish gaming history as one of the first game consoles sold in Finland.