File search data selector

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A FILE SEARCH DATA SELECTOR CONSISTING IN COMBINATION OF: MAGNETIC READING MEANS FOR READING INFORMATION FROM A MOVING MAGNETIZABLE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION MAGNETICALLY STORED THEREON IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PREDETERMINED CODE AND IN RANDOMLY ARRANGED RECORDS OF VARIABLE LENGTH; CONTROLLABLE MEANS, COOPERATING WITH SAID READING MEANS, FOR SELECTIVELY EFFECTING FORWARD AND BACKWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID MEDIUM; LOGICAL CIRCUIT MEANS, COOPERATING WITH SAID READING MEANS AND CONTROLLING SAID CONTROLLABLE MEANS, FOR FILE SEARCHING THE INFORMATION STORED ON SAID MEDIUM TO LOCATE AND READ OUT FOR DATA PROCESSING THE ENTIRE INFORMATION STORED IN EACH RECORD FOUND TO CONTAIN ANYWHERE THEREIN, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID PREDETERMINED CODE, IN IMMEDIATE SEQUENCE, IN THE ORDER RECITED, THE ALPHABETIC CHARACTERS N1, N2, N3, AND N4 AND WHEREIN N1, N2, N3 AND N4 ARE RESPECTIVELY ANY ALPHABETIC CHARACTERS; SAID LOGICAL CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING COUNTER MEANS AND AND OR CIRCUIT MEANS; SAID LOGICAL CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING FIRST MEANS, RESPONSIVE TO SAID READING MEANS READING THE CHARACTER N1, FOR RENDERING A FIRST DISCRETE ELECTRICAL MANIFESTATION; SAID LOGICAL CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING SECOND MEANS CONDITIONED BY SAID FIRST DISCRETE ELECTRICAL MANIFESTATION FOR RENDERING A SECOND DISCRETE ELECTRICAL MANIFESTATION IN RESPONSE TO SAID READING MEANS READING THE CHARACTER N2, IMMEDIATELY SUBSEQUENT TO THE READING OF THE CHARACTER N1; SAID LOGICAL CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING THIRD MEANS CONDITIONED BY SAID SECOND DISCRETE ELECTRICAL MANIFESTATION FOR RENDERING A THIRD DISCRETE ELECTRICAL MANIFESTATION IN RESPONSE TO SAID READING MEANS READING THE CHARACTER N3, IMMEDIATELY SUBSEQUENT TO THE READING OF THE CHARACTER N2; SAID LOGICAL CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING FOURTH MEANS CONDITIONED BY SAID THIRD DISCRETE ELECTRICAL MANIFESTATION FOR RENDERING A FOURTH DISCRETE ELECTRICAL MANIFESTATION IN RESPONSE TO SAID READING MEANS READING THE CHARACTER N4, IMMEDIATELY SUBSEQUENT TO THE READING OF THE CHARACTER N3; ADDITIONAL MEANS, COOPERATING WITH SAID CONTROLLABLE MEANS, SAID READING MEANS, AND SAID COUNTER MEANS, AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID FOURTH DISCRETE ELECTRICAL MANIFESTATION FOR FIRST CAUSING LIMITED BACKWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID MEDIUM AND THEN A FORWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID MEDIUM; AND READ OUT MEANS, COOPERATING WITH SAID ADDITIONAL MEANS AND SAID READING MEANS, WHEREBY ONLY THE RECORD OF INFORMATION STORED IN SAID MEDIUM AND CONTAINING THEREIN THE ALPHABETIC CHARACTERS N1, N2, N3 AND N4, IN THE IMMEDIATE SEQUENCE AND ORDER RECITED, IS MADE AVAILABLE FOR DATA PROCESSING.