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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: MBO Tele-Ball VII
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- Pongs
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name: Tele-Ball VII
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image: /media/museum/photos/mbo_teleball-7.jpg
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company: /companies/mbo
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company_name: MBO
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tabs:
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- photos
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photos:
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- title: INSIDE
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/mbo_teleball-7_inside.jpg
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- title: BOX
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/mbo_teleball-7_box_1.jpg
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- title: LIGHT GUN BOXED
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/mbo_teleball-7_gun_1.jpg
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oc_id: 692
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230613152943/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=692
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date: '2023-06-13'
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MBO was a famous electronic german brand from Munich. This is a quite sober pong system... actually, not a very fun or nice looking one. At least, it is complete and offers the 6 games of the AY-3-8500 from General Instruments. The detachable controllers have a serve button. Each of them can be stored on the sides of the main unit.
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MBO produced a large serie of pong systems that they named "tele-ball" with numbers from 1 to 9 (or more ?). But there did not seem to be any real evolutivity as this model 2 for example, displays nearly the same features as the model 7 except for the 2 shooting games. Undoubtly it was just for marketing purposes. The chip included in the Tele-ball VII is dated from 1977 as the one included in the tele-ball II. So maybe they made different shapes at the same time just to propose "different products" and to sell more.
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An odd detail: whereas all the systems including a GI AY-3-8500 chip run with a 9 Volts voltage, this one is powered with only 6 Volts.
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