Simple general purpose digital computer

Claim 1

IN A DIGITAL COMPUTER, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: A REGISTER FOR STORING BIVALUED SIGNALS ARRANGED IN A PLURALITY OF ALTERNATE GROUPS, THE FIRST GROUP OF SAID PLURALITY REPRESENTING AN ACCUMULATOR NUMBER AND THE SECOND GROUP OF SAID PLURALITY REPRESENTING INSTRUCTIONS, SAID SECOND GROUP BEING FURTHER ARRANGED IN A PLURALITY OF SUB GROUPS OF SIGNALS, AT LEAST ONE SUB GROUP OF SAID LAST NAMED PLURALITY REPRESENTING AN INSTRUCTION CORRESPONDING TO AN OPERATION TO BE PERFORMED UPON INFORMATION IN SAID COMPUTER; MEANS FOR CIRCULATING AND SERIALLY PRESENTING SIGNALS STORED IN SAID REGISTER; OPERATING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID CIRCULATING MEANS AND OPERABLE IN RESPONSE TO A FIRST SUB GROUP OF SIGNALS REPRESENTING AN INSTRUCTION TO PERFORM A CORRESPONDING OPERATION UPON INFORMATION IN SAID COMPUTER AND, IN EACH SUBSEQUENT CYCLE OF OPERATION, BEING OPERABLE IN RESPONSE TO ANOTHER SIGNAL OF SAID SUB GROUPS FOR PERFORMING AN OPERATION CORRESPONDING THERETO, EACH CYCLE REQUIRING ONLY THE TIME NECESSARY FOR READING THE SIGNALS OF ONE EACH OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND GROUPS.