AY-3-8500-1 Pong Game on a Chip

Greetings,

Recently came across a AY-3-8500-1 Pong Game Chip and I was hoping
someone in the group would have the data sheets or even better a
schematic using the chip.

The chip is made by General Instruments and date code looks like 1976?
28 pin DIP package. Would really like to see it work again!

 

[John Robertson]

"How To Repair Video Games" by Robert Goodman, TAB Books, 1978, page
176 shows this chip in action...

John :-#)#

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:22:22 GMT, transistor@REMOVEkc.rrTHIS.com
wrote:

Greetings,

Recently came across a AY-3-8500-1 Pong Game Chip and I was hoping
someone in the group would have the data sheets or even better a
schematic using the chip.

The chip is made by General Instruments and date code looks like 1976?
28 pin DIP package. Would really like to see it work again!

(Please post followups or tech enquires to the newsgroup)
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[Dieter Wiedmann]

John Robertson schrieb:

"How To Repair Video Games" by Robert Goodman, TAB Books, 1978, page
176 shows this chip in action...

And here you can find first page of datasheet with standard schematic.
(Vcc=6-7V)

http://home.t-online.de/home/dieter.wiedmann/AY-3-8500.gif


Regards,
Dieter

 

[Mark Zenier]

In article <40c5f4e2.676497@news-server.kc.rr.com>,
<transistor@REMOVEkc.rrTHIS.com> wrote:

Greetings,

Recently came across a AY-3-8500-1 Pong Game Chip and I was hoping
someone in the group would have the data sheets or even better a
schematic using the chip.

The chip is made by General Instruments and date code looks like 1976?
28 pin DIP package. Would really like to see it work again!

I've got a book from GI, _GIMINI TV Games Circuits_ from 1978, with
the datasheet and some app notes in it. Scanning it in now, but
it's 100 pages or so. Stay tuned.

Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com Washington State resident

 

[Mark Zenier]

In article <caa473$ed7$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>,
Mark Zenier <mzenier@eskimo.com> wrote:

In article <40c5f4e2.676497@news-server.kc.rr.com>,
transistor@REMOVEkc.rrTHIS.com> wrote:
Greetings,

Recently came across a AY-3-8500-1 Pong Game Chip and I was hoping
someone in the group would have the data sheets or even better a
schematic using the chip.

The chip is made by General Instruments and date code looks like 1976?
28 pin DIP package. Would really like to see it work again!

I've got a book from GI, _GIMINI TV Games Circuits_ from 1978, with
the datasheet and some app notes in it. Scanning it in now, but
it's 100 pages or so. Stay tuned.

ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/m/mzenier/GI-Games-1978.pdf or something close
to that. 3.9 megabytes. There are four blank pages not scanned, so
the pdf page number gets off towards the end.

Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com Washington State resident

 

[Mark Zenier]

In article <caae0q$ji7$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>,
Mark Zenier <mzenier@eskimo.com> wrote:

In article <caa473$ed7$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>,
Mark Zenier <mzenier@eskimo.com> wrote:
In article <40c5f4e2.676497@news-server.kc.rr.com>,
transistor@REMOVEkc.rrTHIS.com> wrote:
Greetings,

Recently came across a AY-3-8500-1 Pong Game Chip and I was hoping
someone in the group would have the data sheets or even better a
schematic using the chip.

The chip is made by General Instruments and date code looks like 1976?
28 pin DIP package. Would really like to see it work again!

I've got a book from GI, _GIMINI TV Games Circuits_ from 1978, with
the datasheet and some app notes in it. Scanning it in now, but
it's 100 pages or so. Stay tuned.

ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/m/mzenier/GI-Games-1978.pdf or something close
to that. 3.9 megabytes. There are four blank pages not scanned, so
the pdf page number gets off towards the end.

I guess I'd better post the content for people who google for it.

It's got datasheets for
AY-3-8610 and AY-3-8610-1 Superstar
AY-3-8615 superstar color converter
AY-3-8710 and AY-3-8710-1 Battle
AY-3-8760 Cycle
AY-3-8500 and AY-3-8500-1 Ball and Paddle
AY-3-8550 and AY-3-8550-1 Ball and Paddle (Two Axis)
AY-3-8515 ball and paddle color converter
And general information on the 8600 cartridge game system and
the GIMINI 8900 and GIMINI 8950 computer based systems

Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com Washington State resident