Content addressable associative memory with an output comparator

Claim 1

APPARATUS OF THE NATURE DESCRIBED COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: N BISTABLE CIRCUITS EACH HAVING OPERATIONAL STATES OF RELATIVELY HIGH RELATIVELY LOW IMPEDANCE LEVELS; FIRST MEANS COUPLED TO ALL OF SAID CIRCUITS FOR SWITCHING THEM TO THE SAME FIST IMPEDANCE LEVEL; A GROUP OF N INPUT LINES EACH COUPLED TO A RESPECTIVELY DIFFERENT ONE OF THE BISTABLE CIRCUITS EACH OF SAID LINES BEING ASSOCIATED WITH A DIFFERENT ONE OF A PLURALITY OF MEMORY LOCATIONS RESPECTIVELY DESIGNATED 0 THROUGH N-1; MEANS FOR APPLYING INFORMATION-REPRESENTING BINARY SIGNALS TO SAID GROUP OF LINES FOR SWITCHING THE RESPECTIVELY CORRESPONDING BISTABLE CIRCUITS FROM SAID FIRST IMPEDANCE LEVEL TO THE OTHER IMPEDANCE LEVEL WHEN THE CORRESPONDING BINARY INPUT SIGNAL IS OF A FIRST BINARY VALUE; AN INTERROGATE LINE CONSTRUCTED TO EXPERIENCE TRANSMISSION LINE EFFECTS HAVING AN INPUT END AND A TERMINATING END; INPUT CIRCUIT MEANS COUPLING EACH OF SAID BISTABLE CIRCUITS IN PARALLEL TO ONE ANOTHER TO SAID INTERROGATE LINE IN SPACED REALTIONSHIP ALONG SAID LINE WITH THE BISTABLE CIRCUIT ASSOCIATED WITH