The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $ 169. 95.

That is, although Fairchild assembles hundreds of quotations from ethnographers, philosophers, novelists, poets, and playwrights from the 17th century to the 19th century, showing a rich variety of ways in which writers romanticized and idealized those who Europeans considered " savages ", almost none of them explicitly refer to something called the " Noble Savage ".

Acorn is sometimes referred to as the " British Apple " and has been compared to Fairchild Semiconductor for being a catalyst for start-ups.

It was inspired by, and is somewhat similar to, the Fairchild F8 microprocessor.

The county is the economic and industrial center of the state, having the resources of the Port of Portland, the Maine Mall, and having corporate headquarters of major companies such as Fairchild Semiconductor, IDEXX Laboratories, Unum, and TD Bank.

The first building erected in what is now the center of the village was built around 1798 by Alpheus Fairchild, who moved west from Connecticut.

The city is served by William R. Fairchild International Airport, and ferry service is provided across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on the M / V Coho or Victoria Express.

Fairchild Air Force Base ( AFB ) is a United States Air Force base located approximately southwest of Spokane, Washington.

The host unit at Fairchild is the 92d Air Refueling Wing ( 92 ARW ) assigned to the Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force.

It is named in honor of General Muir S. Fairchild ( 1894 – 1950 ).

Fairchild AFB is named in honor of General Muir Stephen Fairchild ( 1894 – 1950 ).

Training is conducted year-round at Fairchild and at the School ’ s field location in the Colville National Forest, about 60 miles north of Fairchild.

Fairchild Air Force Base is located just north of town.

The largest military facility and employer in the area is Fairchild Air Force Base near Airway Heights, where the 92d Air Refueling Wing is stationed.

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California.

The partial 1930 black and white calendar from Kingsbury and Fairchild ( 1935 ) displayed here does not conform to any of these because its red day is the fifth day of the week, which even disagrees with their own statement that red was the third day of the week.

It is commonly noted that the first venture-backed startup is Fairchild Semiconductor ( which produced the first commercially practicable integrated circuit ), funded in 1959 by what would later become Venrock Associates.

Byrd's Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, " Stars And Stripes " is on display at the Virginia Aviation Museum located on the north side of the airport, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C.

Fairchild Semiconductor was also home of the first silicon gate IC technology with self-aligned gates, which stands as the basis of all modern CMOS computer chips.

In August 1999, Condé Nast purchased Fairchild Publications ( now known as Fairchild Fashion Media ), home to W and WWD, from the Walt Disney Company.

While recovering from his illness at home and watching a live Rams game on television, Martz was blocked by team president John Shaw from relaying a play call to Fairchild by phone.

* The Kampong, the home and personal introduction garden of David Grandison Fairchild

In 2012, Fairchild also became the home of the American Orchid Society.

By the end of the 1970s, cartridge-based systems, beginning with the Fairchild Channel F, had risen to prominence during the second generation of consoles due to the success of the Atari 2600, though stand-alone systems such as Coleco's Mini-Arcade series continued to have a smaller presence in the home market up until the North American video game crash of 1983.

Historic greats who once made Fairchild Stadium their home field include another Red Sox legend, Luis Tiant, and longtime New York Yankees pitcher and coach Mel Stottlemyre.

The task force includes Pennsylvania Senator John Gordner and Rep Russ Fairchild, community leaders with a wide range of economic development experience and skills including an accountant, lawyer, land developer, engineer, surveyor, and two bankers – along with chairmen of the Snyder County Board of Commissioners, Penn Township Board of Supervisors, and Township Municipal Authority.

For 2007, Buffalo offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild indicated that with the improved offensive line he plans to employ a more wide-open offense utilizing multiple wide receiver sets and taking greater advantage of the running backs in the passing game.

After the cancellation of Flamingo Road, Fairchild continued to make guest appearances in a variety of episodic television series such as Hotel, Simon & Simon, Magnum, P. I.

With more than 200 recordings to his credit, his music has brought him on stage or in the studio to perform with entertainers in a variety of music fields: Carl Perkins ; Charlie Daniels ; Peabo Bryson ; The Whites ; Ricky Skaggs ; Kitty Wells ; Pee Wee King ; Jimmy Dickens ; Jeff and Sheri Easter ; The Lewis Family ; The Isaacs ; The Primitive Quartet ; Bill Monroe ; Jim and Jesse ; Ralph Stanley ; Raymond Fairchild ; Jimmy Martin ; Mac Wiseman ; Chubby Wise ; Josh Graves ; Doug Dillard ; Jerry Douglas ; Sam Bush ; Byron Berline ; The Warrior River Boys ; The Sand Mountain Boys ; The Gary Waldrep Band ; The Cox Family ; The Sidemen ; Elaine and Shorty ; “ Doc ” Tommy Scott ’ s Last Real Old Time Medicine Show.

By 1977, the Fairchild Channel F had sold 250, 000 units and was second-place behind the VCS.

Powered by the Rolls-Royce Dart, it became the world's best selling turboprop airliner, reaching almost 800 units sold by 1986, including 206 under license by Fairchild.

When Allen Sides sold Western to Rick Adams, the equipment inventory was also purchased from Ocean Way Recording, including a collection of rare vintage microphones, as well as vintage outboard gear including valuable studio effects units such as the legendary Fairchild 670 limiters, no longer made, which were a crucial element of the sound of many classic pop recordings of the Fifties and Sixties.

The wing won the Fairchild Trophy for best bomber / tanker team as well as the Saunders Trophy for the tanker unit attaining the most points on all competition missions.

Whether it has been combat operations or humanitarian relief missions, Fairchild tankers have been force extenders, enabling U. S. and Allied aircraft to successfully complete their missions.

In 1995 aircraft from Fairchild flew to Travis AFB, California in support of its first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) mission, transporting Russian inspectors to sites in the Western U. S. The wing has flown START missions in the U. S. every year since.

RQF aircrews regularly perform “ practice ” mountain training missions in conjunction with Survival School operations, but also launch out of Fairchild several days a week.

One of the most successful pioneers of the commercial use of aerial photography was by Sherman Fairchild who started his own aircraft firm Fairchild Aircraft to develop and build specialized aircraft for high altitude aerial survey missions.

Fairchild Camera and Kawecki Chemical gained 2-1/2 each.

Charlotte Fairchild was excellent as the loyal Marie, who became the second Mrs. LaGuardia, singing and acting with remarkable conviction.

Several companies, including Fairchild Semiconductor, RCA and Texas Instruments, picked up on the invention and began development programs.

Steven Sasson, an electrical engineer working for Kodak, invented the first digital still camera using a Fairchild CCD in 1975.

It was launched as the Video Entertainment System, or VES, but when Atari released their VCS the next year, Fairchild renamed its machine.

The Channel F electronics were designed by Jerry Lawson using the Fairchild F8 CPU, the first public outing of this processor.

All worked for Fairchild Semiconductor headed by Wilf Corigan a division of Fairchild Camera & Instrument.

Notably, Robert Noyce worked on the F8 design team before he left Fairchild to start his own company, Intel.

Twenty-six cartridges, termed ' Videocarts ', were officially released to consumers during the ownership of Fairchild and Zircon, the first twenty-one of which were released by Fairchild.

All further brochures, released after Zircon took over Fairchild, never listed this accessory nor anything called a Keyboard Videocart.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

This re-designed System II was completed by Nick Talesfore at Fairchild.

Only six new games were released after the debut of the second system before its death, several of which were developed at Fairchild before they sold it off.

However, by this time the market was in the midst of the first video game crash, and Fairchild eventually threw in the towel and left the market.

* CPU chip: Fairchild F8 operating at 1. 79 MHz ( PAL gen. 1: 2. 00 MHz, PAL gen. 2: 1. 77 MHz )