Control apparatus for digital computer

Claim 1

IN AN ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER OPERATIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH A STORED PROGRAM OF BINARY CODED INSTRUCTIONS, COMMAND GENERATING APPARATUS FOR CHANNELING A SERIALLY GENERATED GROUP OF TIMING PULSES AS COMMANDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF SAID BINARY CODED INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND STORAGE REGISTERS FOR STORING FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS RESPECTIVELY OF A SET OF INSTRUCTION SIGNALS, FIRST AND SECOND LOGICAL MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND REGISTERS RESPECTIVELY, EACH SAID LOGICAL MEANS PROVIDING A SINGLE OUTPUT SIGNAL LEVEL INDICATIVE OF THE DECODED VALUE OF THE INSTRUCTION PORTION STORED IN THE CONNECTED STORAGE REGISTER, A FIRST SET OF GATES CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST LOGICAL MEANS, A SECOND SET OF GATES CONNECTED TO SAID SECOND LOGICAL MEANS, SAID SECOND SET OF GATES BEING ARRANGED IN A PLURALITY OF GROUPS EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF GATES IN SAID FIRST SET, EACH SAID GATE HAVING A CONDITIONING SIGNAL INPUT TERMINAL, A SAMPLING SIGNAL INPUT TERMINAL AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL, EACH DIFFERENT OUTPUT SIGNAL LEVEL FROM SAID FIRST LOGICAL MEANS BEING APPLIED TO THE CONDITIONING INPUT TERMINAL OF A DIFFERENT GATE IN SAID FIRST SET, EACH DIFFERENT OUTPUT SIGNAL LEVEL FROM SAID SECOND LOGICAL MEANS BEING APPLIED TO THE CONDITIONING INPUT TERMINAL OF A DIFFERENT GATE IN ANY ONE GROUP IN SAID SECOND SET, MEANS TO APPLY A TIMING PULSE SIMULTANEOUSLY TO THE SAMPLING INPUT TERMINALS OF ALL THE GATES IN SAID FIRST SET SO THAT THE GATE IN THAT SET HAVING A SIGNAL LEVEL APPLIED TO ITS CONDITIONING INPUT TERMINAL FROM SAID FIRST LOGICAL MEANS WILL PRODUCE AN OUTPUT PULSE AT ITS OUTPUT TERMINAL, AND MEANS TO APPLY SAID OUTPUT PULSE SIMULTANEOUSLY TO THE SAMPLING INPUT TERMINALS OF ALL THE GATES IN ONE GROUP IN SAID SECOND SET SO THAT THE GATE IN THAT GROUP HAVING A SIGNAL LEVEL APPLIED TO ITS CONDITIONING INPUT TERMINAL FROM SAID SECOND LOGICAL MEANS WILL PRODUCE A COMMAND PULSE AT ITS OUTPUT TERMINAL TO CONTROL THE COMPUTER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTRUCTION SIGNALS STORED IN SAID FIRST AND SECOND STORAGE REGISTERS.