Asynchronous translator

Claim 1

A TRANSLATOR FOR TRANSLATING ANY PARTICULAR ONE OF A GROUP OF DIFFERENT ARBITRARY CODES INTO A PRESELECTED ONE OF A PREDETERMINED ORDERLY SERIES OF NUMBERS ON A ONE-TOONE CORRESPONDENCE BASIS, SAID TRANSLATOR COMPRISING A STORAGE DEVICE HAVING INFORMATION STORED THEREIN IN EACH OF A GIVEN NUMBER OF SEPARATE SLOTS, THE INFORMATION STORED IN EACH SLOT COMPRISING A FIRST PORTION AND A SECOND PORTION, A COUNTER HAVING A COUNT CAPACITY AT LEAST EQUAL TO SAID GIVEN NUMBER OF SEPARATE SLOTS, STORAGE DEVICE READOUT MEANS FOR SCANNING SAID SLOTS AND SEQUEN DETIALLY APPLYING ONLY SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID STORED INFORMATION FROM EACH SLOT TO SAID COUNTER FOR SETTING SAID COUNTER TO THE FIRST NUMBER OF SAID SERIES IN RESPONSE TO SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID STORED INFORMATION FROM A CERTAIN SLOT AND ADVANCING THE COUNT OF SAID COUNTER TO THE NEXT NUMBER IN SAID SERIES IN RESPONSE TO SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID STORED INFORMATION FROM EACH SUCCESSIVELY SCANNED SLOT, WHEREBY EACH SLOT CORRESPONDS TO A DIFFERENT NUMBER IN SAID SERIES, SAID SECOND PORTION OF SAID INFORMATION IN EACH SLOT COMPRISING THAT ARBITRARY CODE WHICH CORRESPONDS WITH THE NUMBER IN SAID SERIES WHICH CORRESPONDS WITH THAT SLOT, A COMPARATOR FOR PRODUCING AN OUTPUT IN RESPONSE TO FIRST AND SECOND IDENTICAL INPUTS BEING SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLIED THERETO, SAID STORAGE DEVICE READOUT MEANS SEQUENTIALLY APPLYING SAID SECOND PORTION OF STORED INFORMATION FROM EACCH SLOT AS SAID FIRST INPUT TO SAID COMPARATOR SIMULTANEOUS WITH THE APPLICATION OF SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID STORED INFORMATION FROM THAT SLOT TO SAID COUNTER, STATIC MEANS FOR APPLYING SAID PARTICULAR ONE OF SAID GROUP OF DIFFERENT ARBITRARY CODES AS SAID SECOND INPUT TO SAID COMPARATOR, DISABLING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO AN OUTPUT FROM SAID COMPARATOR FOR DISABLING SAID COUNTER FROM COUNTING FURTHER, WHEREBY THE NUMBER MANIFESTED BY SAID COUNTER WHEN IT IS DISABLED IS THE NUMBER IN SAID SERIES CORRESPONDING TO SAID PARTICULAR ONE OF SAID GROUP OF ARBITRARY CODES, AND COUNTER OUTPUT MEANS FOR READING OUT THE COUNT MANIFESTED BY SAID DISABLED COUNTER.