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Curt Vendel, on Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:18 PM, said:
Originally the Atari 2600 was going to have similar design features to the dedicated consoles (Pong, Super Pong, Stunt Cycle...etc.) and was original planned to have speakers incorporated into the design, Douglas Hardy, one of the Atari 2600 Industrial designers incorporated the speaker openings into the 1977 design.
However the final production design brought the audio out through the TV instead and never used any form of internal speakers, there was never a built production system that had accommodations on the PCB for internal speakers and no units were ever made - anyone claiming to have such has either rigged up their own mod/hack or is flat out fibbing.
Curt
However the final production design brought the audio out through the TV instead and never used any form of internal speakers, there was never a built production system that had accommodations on the PCB for internal speakers and no units were ever made - anyone claiming to have such has either rigged up their own mod/hack or is flat out fibbing.
Curt
Ah - cool info Curt!
Thanks to whoever for bumping this topic back to life!
