High speed tape memory system

Claim 1

IN A MEMORY SYSTEM FOR STORING DATA FOR USE IN DATA PROCESSING, THE COMBINATION OF STORAGE MEANS HAVING A PLURALITY OF BLOCKS FOR THE STORAGE OF DATA AND MOVABLE TO DIFFERENT POSITIONS TO PROVIDE A RECORDING OF INFORMATION IN THE DIFFERENT BLOCKS OF THE STORAGE MEANS AND A READING OF INFORMATION FROM THE DIFFERENT BLOCKS OF THE STORAGE MEANS, INPUT BUFFER MEANS CONSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A STATIC MEMORY OF A PLURALITY OF BITS OF INFORMATION IN A SELECTED NUMBER OF ROWS AND A SELECTED NUMBER OF COLUMNS, MEANS INCLUDING ELECTRICAL SWITCHING CIRCUITRY COUPLED TO THE INPUT BUFFER MEANS FIRST CONTROL CIRCUITRY COUPLED TO SAID INPUT BUFFER MEANS FOR ENABLING SAID ELECTRICAL SWITCHING CIRCUITRY SELECTIVELY TO ACTIVATE DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF ROWS AND COLUMNS IN THE BUFFER MEANS TO OBTAIN THE SERIAL INTRODUCTION OF INFORMATION TO THE BUFFER MEANS FOR THE STORAGE OF DATA IN THE STORAGE MEANS, AND MEANS INCLUDING SECOND ELECTRICAL CONTROL CIRCUITRY COUPLED TO THE INPUT BUFFER MEANS AND COUPLED TO THE STORAGE MEANS UPON THE PRESENTATION OF A PARTICULAR BLOCK IN THE STORAGE MEANS FOR ENABLING SAID ELECTRICAL SWITCHING CIRCUITRY TO SELECTIVELY ACTIVATE SUCCESSIVE COLUMNS IN THE INPUT BUFFER MEANS TO OBTAIN THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO THE STORAGE MEANS UPON SUCH ACTIVATION.