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title	categories	origins	years	cpus	params
GAMATIC 7600	Pongs	Korea	1977	TMS-1965 from Texas Instruments	name image company company_name specs tabs photos comments software oc_id source 7600 /media/museum/photos/gamatic_7600_1s.jpg /companies/gamatic GAMATIC label value NAME 7600 label value MANUFACTURER Gamatic label value ORIGIN Korea label value YEAR ? 1977 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Tennis, Hockey, Squash, Practice label value KEYBOARD Two detachable controllers with one knob each label value CPU TMS-1965 from Texas Instruments label value SPEED Game Reset label value CO-PROCESSOR Game selection, Ball Angle (20°/40°), Ball Speed (rapide/lent), Player Size (petit/grand), Automatic service (on/off) & Power switch label value RAM On screen label value COLORS Black & white label value SOUND Built-in speaker label value SIZE / WEIGHT 27 (L) x 14.5 (D) x 5 (H) cm label value I/O PORTS RF TV video output, power in label value OS 6 x CM2 cell batteries label value POWER SUPPLY External power supply (9V DC, 360 mW) label value PERIPHERALS No label value PRICE Unknown photos software title subtitle text image GAMATIC 7600 Thanks to Boneless for this picture /media/museum/photos/gamatic_7600_1.jpg author date text Housemartins (Greece) Monday 21st October 2019 I have just recently cleaned it up and put it back in operation, very nice machine, robust and reliable.\ My contribution is a VIDEO OUT RCA jack in order to be plugged to a monitor or a modern TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v$kH6-0FBgE24 author date text Anders Fraser (Somerset / UK) Monday 16th September 2019 I also have one of these but one of the main resistors has burnt-out (first resistor off the positive feed, after the large cap). Think the first value was brown but can''t make anything else out, if anyone could help I would be very grateful. author date text Nick Blackburn (Isle of Man, UK) Friday 3rd February 2017 Hi I have one of these lovely old consoles. It was in a very sorry state when I got it, but its been cleaned up, resoldered where required and broken parts fixed. It works really well and its just so refreshing to to play a simple yet addictive game of pong. /software/squash-also-known-as-jai-alai-pelote-basque 1290 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230613001301/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1290 2023-06-13

The Gamatic 7600 is a classic pong system sold worldwide under many different brands, as the Grandstand T.V. Game Model 2000 for example, or the Univox 41N.

The system itself seems to have been made in Korea. The electronic board is labeled "F'GAMATIC-7600". Indeed many Gamatic 7600 systems identical to this one can be found worldwide, the earliest one being a japanese Gamatic 7600 system released in 1976.

The case design is not particularly original: black rectangle with two detachable controllers and a wide control panel at the top. The controllers are also rectangular with a dial to move the bat on screen and a red button each, one to serve (left player) and the other to reset the game (right player).

As almost all systems powered by the TMS-1965 chipset from Texas Instruments, the Univox 41N offers 4 pong games : Hockey, Pelote, Tennis and Entrainement delivered by this specialised chip (the TMS-1965 was pin-to-pin compatible with the more popular AY-3-8500 chip from General Instruments)

On the control panel can be found the usual setting switches: ball speed (slow/fast), automatic service (on/off), game selection, rebound angle (20°/40°), paddle size (small/big) and power switch. The system can be powered by six CM2 battery cells or through an external power supply (9v DC, 360 mW).