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Worlds of Wonder (WoW) was an American toy company founded in 1985 by former Atari sales president Don Kingsborough, and former Atari employee Mark Robert Goldberg. [2] Its founding was inspired by a prototype that became its launch product, Teddy Ruxpin .
The Action Max is a home video game console using VHS tapes for games. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was manufactured in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder . [ 3 ] [ 2 ] The system had a limited release outside the U.S.
The switch is operated manually with metal pins that create a connection between the horizontally and vertically arranged bars. [1] In electronics and telecommunications, a crossbar switch (cross-point switch, matrix switch) is a collection of switches arranged in a matrix configuration. A crossbar switch has multiple input and output lines ...
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Further, large crossbar switches had physical problems. Not only did the switch require too much space, but the metal bars containing the switch contacts would become so long that they would sag and become unreliable. Engineers also noticed that at any time, each bar of a crossbar switch was only making a single connection.
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The Number Five Crossbar Switching System (5XB switch) is a telephone switch for telephone exchanges designed by Bell Labs and manufactured by Western Electric starting in 1947. It was used in the Bell System principally as a Class 5 telephone switch in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) until the early 1990s, when it was replaced ...