Infromation handling arrangement

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING INFORMATION STORED IN A DATA CARD CONTAINING PUNCHED HOLES TO CORRESPONDING ELECTRICAL INFORMATION, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING: A STORAGE PANEL INCLUDING AN ARRAY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVE STORAGE UNITS ARRANGED IN ROWS AND COLUMNS, EACH OF SAID STORAGE UNITS INCLUDING A RADIATION RESPONSIVE THIN FILM SUPERCONDUCTIVE SWITCH ELEMENT AND A SUPERCONDUCTING INDUCATANCE PORTION CONNECTED IN AN ELECTRICAL PARALLEL CIRCUIT, SAID SWITCH ELEMENT BEING RESPONSIVE TO RADIANT ENERGY IMPINGING THEREON TO TRANSFORM SAID SWITCH ELEMENT FROM A SUPERCONDUCTING TO A RESISTIVE STATE, SAID INDUCTANCE POR TION BEING CONSTRUCTED TO HAVE A SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER INSUCTANCE AND A HIGHER CRITICAL CURRENT LEVEL RELATIVE TO SAID SWITCH ELEMENT; MEANS CONNECTING SAID STORAGE UNITS IN SERIES; A RADIANT ENERGY SOURCE ARRANGED TO PROJECT ON SAID STORAGE PANEL A RADIATION PATTERN FORMED BY PROJECTIONS OF SAID RADIANT ENERGY THROUGH THE PUNCHED HOLES OF SAID DATA CARD, WITH THE RAYS OF RADIANT ENERGY PASSING THROUGH SAID HOLES IMPINGING UPON SAID SWITCH ELEMENTS; A SOURCE CONNECTED TO APPLY A BIAS CURRENT THROUGH SAID STORAGE UNITS IN SERIES, SAID BIAS CURRENT BEING OF A MAGNITUDE BELOW THE CRITICAL CURRENT LEVEL OF SAID SWITCH ELEMENT, WHEREBY IN THE ABSENCE OF RADIATION ON A SWITCH ELEMENT, SAID BIAS CURRENT FLOWS UNIMPEDED THROUGH SAID SWITCH ELEMENT, AND UPON IRRADIATING SAID SWITHC ELEMENT, SAID BIAS CURRENT FLOWS THROUGH SAID INDUCTANCE PORTION, THEREBY TO INDUCE A PERSISTENT CURRENT IN SAID IRRADIATED STORAGE UNIT WHEN SAID RADIATION AND SAID BIAS CURRENT ARE REMOVED SEQUENTIALLY; AND MEANS FOR SENDING THE PRESENCE OF SAID PERSISTENT CURRENT IN EACH OF SAID STORAGE UNITS, SAID SENSING MEANS INCLUDING AN ARRAY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVE MEMBERS ARRANGED IN ROWS AND COLUMNS, WITH ONE MEMBER FROM EACH ROW AND EACH COLUMN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED TO EACH INDUCTANCE PORTION OF SAID STORAGE UNITS.