Intellivision reference in Electronic Technician/Dealer magazine

[+Lathe26]

Just finish reading an old magazine from Feb 1981 called Electronic Technician/Dealer.  Its audience was for electronic repair ships from back-in-the-day (ex: when your TV or fridge broke, you got it repaired, not replaced).  Anyways, a portion of the article talks about the Intellivision in a semi-technical manner that I thought I'd share here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[+JasonlikesINTV]

I saw that on eBay.  Glad it went to a good home.

[mr_me]

I like reading these old articles; thanks for posting the scans.  It's actually February 1981 just after the Intellivision went mainstream.  The guy's complaining that you can't get parts to repair intellivisions.  Not sure how atari worked but Mattel had authorised service centres in many major cities.  Manufacturers had to decide on supporting any repair shop or building expertise in fewer shops.  They did write an accurate description of how an intellivision worked.  I guess they couldn't get a full schematic from Mattel.

Edited December 16, 2019 by mr_me

[+Lathe26]

5 hours ago, mr_me said:

I like reading these old articles; thanks for posting the scans.  It's actually February 1981 just after the Intellivision went mainstream.  The guy's complaining that you can't get parts to repair intellivisions.  Not sure how atari worked but Mattel had authorised service centres in many major cities.  Manufacturers had to decide on supporting any repair shop or building expertise in fewer shops.  They did write an accurate description of how an intellivision worked.  I guess they couldn't get a full schematic from Mattel.

Thanks.  Also, I just fixed the typo in the year.

[majors]

On 12/16/2019 at 8:38 AM, mr_me said:

...  Not sure how atari worked but Mattel had authorised service centres in many major cities.  

Along the discussion of authorized repair shops, recently a local games shop got an INTV traded in that seems to have come from a repair place but then never used after (guess the owners bought another INTV or moved on to other consoles). It has the repair invoice from 1982 and since the original box was stored in a shipping box, seems pretty clean. 

 

The store got this in and the owner, knowing was was a fan on Intellivision, sent me some pics and details about it. It's like a time capsule

[+cmart604]

5 hours ago, majors said:

Along the discussion of authorized repair shops, recently a local games shop got an INTV traded in that seems to have come from a repair place but then never used after (guess the owners bought another INTV or moved on to other consoles). It has the repair invoice from 1982 and since the original box was stored in a shipping box, seems pretty clean. 

 

The store got this in and the owner, knowing was was a fan on Intellivision, sent me some pics and details about it. It's like a time capsule

Cool. It's always neat to see this sort of stuff. How much did they want for it? 

[majors]

On 2/14/2020 at 3:31 PM, cmart604 said:

 How much did they want for it? 

I haven't been to the store since they got it in, but next time I'm there, I'll find out. INTV doesn't sell well there, so it might not even be out in the floor.