MATTEL INC. is an American manufacturing company founded in 1945 by Harold "Matt" Matson, Ruth Handler, and Elliot Handler (MATT+ELlot = 2 first names of the founders). In the early 1980s, Mattel produced video game systems (including chess computers), under its own brands and under license from Nintendo.
Detailed Museum records and historical inventory records share this manufacturer room. When an original inventory entry matches a detailed record, the detailed Museum record is canonical.
This manufacturer room is a documentation view. Individual physical machines, including duplicate examples, are tracked in the separate specimen registry.
No individual Museum record has yet been entered for this manufacturer. The room remains in the catalogue so future additions do not change its structure.
Original source room: ChessEval Forum · Mattel