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CONTROL APPARATUS INCLUDING CIRCUIT MEANS ADAPTED TO BE CONTINUOUSLY OPERATIVE FO RRECEIVING A PLURALITY OF BINARY CODED SIGNALS AND TO EITHER CONTINUOUSLY FOLLOW AND INDICATE THE CHANGES IN THE BINARY CHARACTER OF THE RECEIVED SIGNALS OR TO STORE THE RECEIVED SIGNALS AND CONTINUOUSLY INDICATE THE BINARY CHARACTER OF THE STORED SIGNALS; SAID CIRCUIT MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SWITCHING ELEMENTS EACH HAVING CONDUCTIVE AND NON-CONDUCTIVE CONDITIONS FOR INDICATING THE BINARY CHARACTER OF AN INDIVIDUAL SIGNAL AND ADAPTED TO BE CONDITIONED FOR ASYMMETRICAL OPERATION AS A MONOSTABLE CIRCUIT TO CONTINUOUSLY FOLLOW THE BINARY CHANGES IN THE RECEIVED SIGNALS OR FOR SYMMETRICAL OPERATION AS A BISTABLE CIRCUIT FOR STORING A PRESELECTED GROUP OF SIGNALS WITHOUT FOLLOWING SUBSEQUENT CHANGES IN THE BINARY CHARACTER OF THE RECEIVED SIGNAL, AND INDIVIDUAL INHIBITING CIRCUIT MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SWITCHING ELEMENTS FOR COUPLING AN INDIVIDUAL SIGNAL FROM A SIGNAL SOURCE TO AN INDIVIDUAL SWITCHING ELEMENT, AND CONTROL CIRCUIT MEANS OPERABLE TO PROVIDE A PAIR OF CONTROL SIGNALS COUPLED TO SAID SINGLE CIRCUIT MEANS FOR CONDITIONING SAID SWITCHING ELEMENTS TO OPERATE IN SAID ASYMMETRICAL FASHION OR CONDITIONING SAID ELEMENTS TO OPERATE IN SAID SYMMETRICAL FASHION WHILE SUBSTANTIALLY SIMULTANEOUSLY CONDITIONING SAID INPUT CIRCUIT MEANS FOR INHIBITING THE COUPLING OF THE SIGNALS TO SAID SWITCHING ELEMENTS WHEN OPERATING IN A BISTABLE FASHION.