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{{Infobox console
|title = Fairchild Channel F
|logo = Fairchild-Channel-F.jpg
|developer = Fairchild Semiconductor
|type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console ]]|generation = [[:Category:Second-generation consoles|Second-generation consoles]]
|release = 1976
|discontinued = 1983
|emulated = {{✓}}
}}
The '''[[gametech:Fairchild Channel F|Fairchild Channel F]]''' is a second-generation home video game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in November 1976 across North Americaand it retailed for {{Inflation|USD|169.95|1976}}. It had a Fairchild F8 CPU at 1.7897725 MHz with 2KB of RAM. It was also released in Japan in October the following year. It has the distinction of being the first programmable ROM cartridge–based video game console, and the first console to use a microprocessor.
==Emulators==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Operating System(s)
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
! colspan="6"|PC / x86
|-
|[[MAME]]
|Multi-platformalign=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
|?
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|FreeChaF
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://github.com/libretro/FreeChaF libretro]
|?
|{{✓}}
|?
|}