Selective transfer of magnetically stored data

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A CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR SELECTIVELY TRANSFERRING DATA SIGNALS FROM A DATA INPUT SOURCE TO A SERIES OF STORAGE LOCATIONS OF MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, INPUT TIMING PULSE GENERATING MEANS FOR GENERATING INPUT TIMING PULSES SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE DATA SIGNALS OF SAID DATA INPUT SOURCE; OUTPUT TIMING PULSE GENERATING MEANS FOR GENERATING OUTPUT TIMING PULSES SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE AVAILABILTY OF THE STORAGE LOCATIONS OF SAID MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS; INTERMEDIATE DATA STORAGE MEANS HAVING A PLURALITY OF SETTABLE DATA SIGNAL STORAGE POSITIONS; INPUT TRANSMITTING MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA SIGNALS FROM SAID DATA INPUT SOURCE TO SAID INTERMEDIATE DATA STORAGE MEANS AND FOR RECORDING TRANSMITTED DATA SIGNALS IN THE SAID INTERMEDIATE DATA STORAGE MEANS; INPUT SWITCHING MEANS CONNECTED IN SAID INPUT TRANSMITTING MEANS AND CONTROLLED BY BOTH INPUT AND OUTPUT TIMING PULSES FOR SELECTING WHICH STORAGE POSITION OF SAID INTERMEDIATE DATA STORAGE MEANS IS TO BE SET IN ACCORDANCE WITH EACH DATA SIGNAL OF SAID DATA INPUT SOURCE; OUTPUT TRANSMITTING MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA SIGNALS FROM SAID INTERMEDIATE DATA STORAGE MEANS TO SAID MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS AND FOR RECORDING TRANSMITTED DATA SIGNALS IN SUCCESSIVE STORAGE LOCATIONS OF THE SAID MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS; AND OUTPUT SWITCHING MEANS CONNECTED IN SAID OUTPUT TRANSMITTING MEANS AND CONTROLLED BY BOTH INPUT AND OUTPUT TIMING PULSES FOR SELECTING A STORAGE LOCATION OF SAID MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS IN WHICH SELECTED GROUPS OF DATA SIGNALS FORMING WORDS HAVING A PRESELECTED CHARACTERISTIC STORED IN SAID INTERMEDIATE DATA STORAGE MEANS ARE TO BE STORED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF INPUT TIMING PULSES AND THE NUMBER OF OUTPUT TIMING PULSES SO THAT SAID SELECTED GROUPS OF DATA SIGNALS ARE STORED IN SAID MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS INDEPENDENTLY OF VARIATION WITHIN PREDETERMINED LIMITS OF THE TIME OF OCCURRENCE OF SAID DATA SIGNALS IN RELATION TO THE AVAILABILITY OF SAID STORAGE LOCATIONS, SAID OUTPUT SWITCHING MEANS COMPRISING MEANS FOR COMPARING THE NUMBER OF INPUT TIMING PULSES WITH THE NUMBER OF OUTPUT TIMING PULSES AND FOR PROVIDING AN OUTPUT VARYING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAID NUMBER OF INPUT TIMING PULSES AND SAID NUMBER OF OUTPUT TIMING PULSES AND SELECTING MEANS FOR INITIATING THE TRANSMISSION FROM SAID INTERMEDIATE DATA STORAGE MEANS TO SAID MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS OF WORDS HAVING A PRESELECTED CHARACTERISTIC, SAID SELECTING MEANS INCLUDING COMPARING MEANS FOR COMPARING TRANSMITTED DATA SIGNALS WITH PRESELECTED DATA SIGNALS AND CONTROL MEANS FOR CONTROLLING SAID OUTPUT SWITCHING MEANS TO PERMIT THE TRANSFER TO SAID MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS OF WORDS HAVING SAID PRESELECTED CHARACTERISTIC AND TO PREVENT THE TRANSFER TO SAID MAIN DATA STORAGE MEANS OF OTHER WORDS.