Original 1977 Atari Owner's Manual C010777 scanned and restored

[dphirschler]

Thanks to my good friend Robert, I was able to obtain and scan an original 1977 Atari 2600 owner's manual. This is the one that originally shipped with the heavy sixer and has no mention of a channel selector switch. It was in pretty rough shape. There was writing on one page and I think somebody used it as a coaster at one point. So I had to do some restoration work.

 

Here are some raw scans (reduced) to show what I had to work with.

 

For some strange reason, this particular manual was not available online anywhere! So here it is now for all to enjoy!

 

Atari 1977 Owner's Manual_200dpi.pdf

 

 

Darryl

[toiletunes]

Thank you very much for your contribution to Atari preservation. This is an example of what makes this community so awesome!

[BassGuitari]

Dang, that's an amazing cleanup job!

[+Special Teams]

Very nicely done!

[Flojomojo]

The water damage was so *authentic*

 

Just kidding, good scanning!!

[Torr]

...and I think somebody used it as a coaster at one point.

 

My childhood in a nutshell.

 

I couldn't leave a comic book, instruction manual, drawing, piece of homework, etc... basically anything flat and paper; lying around unattended or it would be used as a coaster immediately by one of my parents or their friends.

 

God damn them.

[Flojomojo]

Meanwhile, they're all "do you respect wood?"

[bikeguychicago]

Is that some weird variant of an M Network game getting inserted into the console on the illustration for section 4?