Automatic sequence controlled computer

Claim 1

PROGRAMMING APPARATUS OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED, COMPRISING: A TYPEWRITER; A COMPUTER UNIT HAVING AN INPUT REGISTER, FIRST AND SECOND ACCUMULATING REGISTERS AND A MULTIPLICAND REGISTER; A PULSE GENERATOR MEANS FOR GENERATING A SERIES OF ELECTRICAL PULSES; FIRST TRANSFER MEANS OPERABLE WHEN ELECTRICALLY ENERGIZED TO ALLOW TRANSFER OF NUMERICAL INFORMATION FROM SAID TYPEWRITER TO SAID INPUT REGISTER; SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH AND SEVENTH TRANSFER MEANS OPERABLE WHEN ELECTRICALLY ENERGIZED TO UTILIZE SAID PULSES TO TRANSFER NUMERICAL INFORMATION RESPECTIVELY FROM SAID INPUT REGISTER TO SAID FIRST ACCUMULATING REGISTER FROM SAID INPUT REGISTER TO SAID SECOND ACCUMULATING REGISTER, FROM SAID FIRST ACCUMULATING REGISTER TO SAID SECOND ACCUMULATING REGISTER, FROM SAID INPUT REGISTER TO SAID MULTIPLICAND REGISTER, FROM SAID FIRST ACCUMULATING REGISTER TO SAID TYPEWRITER AND FROM SAID SECOND ACCUMULATING REGISTER TO SAID TYPEWRITER; EIGHT AND NINTH TRANSFER MEANS OPERABLE WHEN ELECTRICALLY ENERGIZED TO CAUSE THE NUMERICAL TRANSFERS BY SAID SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH TRANSFER MEANS TO BE IN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FORM RESPECTIVELY; TENTH TRANSFER MEANS OPERABLE WHEN ELECTRICALLY ENERGIZED FOR REPEATEDLY TRANSFERRING NUMERICAL INFORMATION FROM SAID INPUT REGISTER TO SAID FIRST ACCUMULATING REGISTER A NUMBER OF TIMES IN ACCORDANCE WITH A NUMBER STORED IN SAID MULTIPLICAND REGISTER; A PROGRAM DEVICE HAVING A SWITCH MEMBER, A PLURALITY OF OUTPUT TERMINALS AND A PULSE OPERATED MEANS FOR MOVING SAID SWITCH MEMBER INTO SUCCESSIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH ALL OF SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS; A PLURALITY OF ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS FROM SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS TO PRESELECTED OF SAID TRANSFER MEANS WHEREBY SAID SWITCH MEMBER MAY BE SUCCESSIVELY CONNECTED TO DIFFERENT OF SAID TRANSFER MEANS IN A PREDETERMINED PROGRAM; A MANUALLY OPERABLE SWITCH; AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE OPERATION OF SAID MANUALLY OPERABLE SWITCH FOR CONNECTING SAID PULSE GENERATOR TO THE PULSE OPERATED MEANS AND SWITCH MEMBER OF SAID PROGRAM DEVICE.