Counter employing quantizing core to saturate counting core in discrete steps to effect countdown

Claim 1

BINARY MAGNETIC CORE AND A MULTI-STABLE MAGNETIC CORE HAVING N STABLE STATES OF REMANENCE WHEREIN ITS FIRST AND NTH STATES ARE ITS RETENTIVITY STATES, AN OUTPUT WINDING ON SAID BINARY CORE AND AN INPUT WINDING ON SAID MULTI-STABLE CORE, A UNDIRECTIONAL TRANSFER LOOP COUPLING SUCH WINDINGS OF SAID CORES TO EFFECTUATE THE STEPPING OF SAID MULTI-STABLE CORE INTO DISCRETE REPRODUCIBLE STATES OF MAGNETIC STORAGE UPON THE SWITCHING OF SAID BINARY CORE FROM ONE REMANENT STATE TO ITS OTHER REMANENT STATE, A CAPACITOR COUPLED IN SERIES CIRCUIT IN SAID TRANSFER LOOP, A RESISTOR IN PARALLEL WITH SAID CAPACITOR AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A HIGH POTENTIAL AT SAID RESISTOR FOR RESETTING SAID MULTI-STABLE CORE WHEREBY IT IS AUTOMATICALLY RESET UPON REACHING THAT RETENTIVITY POINT OPPOSITE TO ITS INITIAL RETENTIVITY POINT.