[stella] off the shelf?

Subject: [stella] off the shelf?
From: Piero Cavina <p.cavina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 20:24:27 +0100
I've always heard that the 2600 was made with off the shelf parts, and this
would explain how some companies could produce adapters for other systems,
or clones.

But this seems strange to me... was the 2600 TIA really a chip that you
could buy from Radio Shack?! And why should one have bought it, if it was
used only by Atari inside the 2600?

Ciao,
 P.



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