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Bank of two-motion switches. The Strowger switch is the first commercially successful electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system. It was developed by the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company founded in 1891 by Almon Brown Strowger. Because of its operational characteristics, it is also known as a step-by-step (SXS) switch.
Bank switching was used to achieve this larger address space by organizing memory into separate banks of up to 64 KB each. [8] Blocks of various sizes were switched in and out via bank select registers or similar mechanisms. Cromemco was the first microcomputer manufacturer to use bank switching, supporting 8 banks of 64 KB in its systems. [9]
A Marx generator is an electrical circuit first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924. [1] Its purpose is to generate a high- voltage pulse from a low-voltage DC supply. Marx generators are used in high-energy physics experiments, as well as to simulate the effects of lightning on power-line gear and aviation equipment.
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The El Graphix kit added the ability to display lower case characters and "chunky" graphics. The Printer Interface was an S-100 Bus card giving the Super-80 a Centronics parallel printer port. [6] The VDU Expansion Board (VDUEB) was an enhanced video display board for the Super-80 developed by Microcomputer Engineering (MCE). The VDUEB gave the ...
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The main battery bank was made up of 16 6-volt batteries connected in series for a total of 96 volts. A switch inside the car allowed the driver to switch from `Boost' mode, which delivered the full 96 volts to the motor for extra power, to `Cruise' mode, which reduced motor voltage to 48 volts and extended the driving range.