Apparatus for processing data including an instruction and multiplicanddivisor register employed on a time shared basis

Claim 1

A REGISTER FOR TEMPORARILY STORING INFORMATION QUANTITIES COMPRISING A MAGNETIC DRUM, MEANS TO ROTATE SAID MAGNETIC DRUM, A RECORD TRACK ON SAID MAGNETIC DRUM,A WRITE HEAD POSITIONED IN TRANSDUCING RELATION WITH RESPECT TO TRACK, A FIRST READ HED POSITIONED IN TRANSDUCING RELATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID TRACK FOR SENSING INFORMATION QUANTITIES ON SAID TRACK AND IN SPACED RELATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID WRITE HEAD IN THE DIRECTION OF ROTATION OF SAID DRUM, A SECOND READ HEAD POSITIONED IN TRANSDUCING RELATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID TRACK FOR SENSING INFORMATION QUANTITIES ON SAID TRACK AND IN SPACED RELATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID FIRST READ HEAD IN THE DIRECTION OF ROTATION OF SAID DRUM, FIRST CIRCUIT MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID WRITE HEAD AND SAID FIRST READ HEAD TO CAUSE A FIRST QUANTITY OF INFORMATION SUPPLIED TO SAID WRITE HEAD TO BE SENSED BY SAID FIRST READ HEAD AND RETURNED TO SAID WRITE HEAD FOR RECORDING ON SAID TRACK DURING A FIRST TIME INTERVAL, MEANS TO SUPPLY A SECOND QUANTITY OF INFORMATION TO SAID WRITE HEAD FOR RECORDING BY SAID WRITE HEAD ON SAID TRACK IN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING RELATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID FIRST QUANTITY OF INFORMATION AND TO BE PERIODICALLY SENSED BY SAID FIRST READ HEAD AND RETURNED TO SAID WRITE HEAD FOR RECORDING ON SAID TRACK DURING A SECOND TIME INTERVAL, AND SECOND CIRCUIT MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID SECOND READ HEAD TO SAID WRITE HEAD TO CAUSE SAID FIRST QUANTITY OF INFORMATION SENSED BY SAID SECOND READ HEAD AT THE END OF SAID SECOND TIME INTERVAL TO THE SUPPLIED TO SAID WRITE HEAD FOR RECORDING ON SAID TRACK AND TO BE THEREAFTER SENSED BY SAID FIRST READ HEAD DURING A THIRD TIME INTERVAL.