The Intellivision I console itself fit into a divot in the case, with a ribbon cable that plugged into the cartridge slot, and passthroughs for the RF out. I can’t remember how the power was handled.

Basically this behemoth used the Intellivision I console for its graphics and controls (maybe) processing power. I’m pretty sure the console itself just thought it had a regular cartridge plugged into it.

The “keyboard component” was a fullsize keyboard and it had a fully automatic cassette drive to the left. On the back was a monster port, into which fit the 8K BASIC cartridge.

We only had two titles that used the cassette – Conversational French, and Jack Lalane’s Workout. The tape was only one-sided, so I’m guessing it was divided into a data track and a voice track, which blew our minds at the time… All of the sudden, our Intellivision was playing full-fidelity sound!

It was a sad day when we had to give it back, but the second generation Intellivision computer system was pretty spiffy too. Nice to see a picture of the original, though. I was starting to think I’d imagined it.

Here’s a look back at some of the cutting edge electronics as seen in Popular Science 1979, I like the “Everything set” and the “Goof corrector” – “” – Link…….