Atari 2600/2600A VCS Domestic Field Service Manual

The record

Type

Technical manual

Tier

A: Vendor documentation, a government document, a technical manual or an official benchmark result. One tier A source is sufficient to publish a figure.

Locator

Theory of Operation and clock-generator schematic

Published

January 1983

Consulted

2026-08-25

Address

https://www.atarimania.com/2600/files/vcs_domestic_field_service_manual.pdf

Retrieved

9334627 bytes, SHA-256 bfa7d9ecbcc189b6… Recorded by the pipeline as evidence of what was downloaded, never as a fact about the hardware.

Usage

A scan of Atari's service manual used to read a numeric hardware figure only after confirming its page-level wording.

Figures citing this source

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