Information storage system

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A SEARCHING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY LOCATING SELECTED OF A PLURALITY OF DOCUMENT RECORDINGS COMPRISING IN COMBINATION WITH A PLURALITY OF MONITOR STATIONS, A VIDEO SIGNAL INPUT TO EACH OF SAID MONITOR STATIONS, A STORAGE SYSSTEM FOR A PLURALITY OF DOCUMENT REDORDINGS INCLUDING AN ENLESS TRACK CONVEYOR, SAID RECORDINGS EACH BEING OF SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL AREA AND ARRANGED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY AS A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL TANDEM ALIGNED FRAMES WHICH FRAMES ALSO EXTEND AS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL ROWS ACROSS SAID CONVEYOR, AT LEAST ON VIDEO SCANNER, A GUIDE MEANS FOR GUIDING SAID SCANNER ACROSS SAUD CONVERYOR PARALLEL TO SAID ROWS OF IMAGE FRAMES, A FIRST SEVOMOTOR FOR DRIVING SAID SCANNER, A SELECTIVE CONTROL MEANS FOR POSITIONING SAID SCANNER IN ALIGNMENT WITH A SELECTED FRAME COLUMN, MEANS FOR GENERTING A PLURALITY OF SIGNALS FOR INDICATING INCREMETAL MOVEMENT OF SAID CONVEYOR, PRESETTABLE FRAME SELECTOR MEANS AT AT LEAST ONE OF SAID STATIONS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SIGNALS AND OPEATIVE WHEN A PRESET CONDITION IS ATTAINED TO GATE A VEDEO SIGNAL GENERATED BY SAID SCANNER IN SCANNING A PREDETERMINED PORTION OF SAID CONVEYOR TO SAID INPUT OF SAID ONE OF OF SAIDMONITOR STATIONS, STORAGE, MEANS AT EACH OF SAID MONITOR STATIONS FOR RECORDING A PLURALITY OF SAID VIDEO SIGNALS, INCLUDING A RECORDING MEMBER, A TRANSDUCER OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID VIDEO SIGNATL INPUT AND ADAPTED TO RECORD SIGNALS AS THEY ARE RECEIVED ONTO PREDETERMINED AREAS OF SAID RECORDING MEMBER, AND MEANS FOR CONTROLLING SAID STORAGE MEANS FOR THE SELECTIVE MONITORINGOF SAID RECORDED SIGNALS WHEREBY THE SELECTED DOCUMENT RECORDING IS RECORDED IN A PARTICULAR MONITOR STATION RECORDING MEMBER TO BE MONITORED WHILE SAID SCANNER IS RELEASED TO SERVE OTHER MONITOR STATIONS.