Check out this amazing manual for Atari arcade games from 1980

Atari, once the prosperous creator of popular arcade machines has mostly faded into irrelevance these days. This beautiful, 186-page manual, for servicing your arcade machines is a peek into a different time, when Atari was at the top of its game. Simply called “The Book” it’s an exhaustive, seven chapter manual, targeted at technicians for Atari’s coin-operated video and pinball machines. According to the foreword in The Book, it’s not intended to make you a technician or turn you into an engineer, but it’s impressively detailed. The manual features everything from how to use an Ohmmeter and soldering iron, to detailed exploding diagrams of…

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