unless this marking has been removed or covered by the bowling center proprietor. Other types of ten-pin pinsetters The Mendes company produced a magnetic pinsetter known as the MM-2001. It featured a flat magnetic pin table and magnets on the head of each pin. It had a pit similar to the AMF and an elevator similar to the GSX. Pin loading involves the combination of a carousel and magazine. The company claimed this technology reduced stops in play due to table jams on out-of-range pins. Mendes was bought out by Qubica, which sold the machine as the MAG3 until its partnership with AMF. The now-defunct Bowl Mor firm of central Massachusetts (no relation to Bowlmor AMF), which was more famous for its candlepin pinsetters, also made tenpin pinspotters early in their history. Some are still in service, with at least one bowling center in Japan having continued to use them, with some design features similar to the Brunswick Model A units in appearance and function. The Furukawa Electric Company of Yokohama, Japan manufactured tenpin pinspotters early in the 1960s and well into the 1970s. Some are still in service, with at a few bowling centers in Japan The most popular model Furukawa Odin FBM-5 continues to be used, with some design features similar to the Brunswick Model A units in appearance and function. Likewise, the FBM-5 was exported to other countries around the Asia Pacific region. String-type pinsetters, similar to those used for five-pin and some nine-pin lanes, are available in ten-pin bowling format. The system is mechanically identical to the five-pin counterpart and can be found in various low-cost bowling centers, typically arcades and other recreational centers, as well as personal bowling lanes installed in private homes. Many bowling equipment manufacturers offer ten-pin string pinsetters; notable examples are the QubicaAMF TMS String Pinspotter and the Brunswick StringPin. Candlepin pinsetters The most common candlepin pinsetters were made by a Massachusetts company named Bowl-Mor (no relation to Bowlmor AMF), founded in the 1940s by attorneys Howard Dowd and R. Lionel Barrows. According to the International Candlepin Bowling Association (ICBA), Dowd and Barrows were searching for a business venture that could weather an economic depression. They found that participant sports met this requirement, and that bowling was one of the top three such sports at the time. The first Bowl-Mor pinsetters were installed at the now-defunct Whalom Park amusement park in 1949.