Magnetic shift register

Claim 1

A REVERSIBLE MAGNETIC SHIFT REGISTER COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF MAGNETIC CORES ARRANGED IN AN ELECTRICAL ROW, EACH OF SAID CORES BEING CAPABLE OF ASSUMING EITHER OF TWO STABLE STATES OF MAGNETIC REMANENCE, A PLURALITY OF COUPLING CIRCUITS, EACH OF SAID MAGNETIC CORES BEING COUPLED TO EACH ADJACENT MAGNETIC CORE BY TWO OF SAID COUPLING CIRCUITS, A FIRST OF SAID TWO COUPLING CIRCUITS COMPRISING A FIRST WINDING MEANS WOUND ON A GIVEN INDIVIDUAL ONE OF SAID MAGNETIC CORES AND A SECOND TAPPED WINDING MEANS WOUND ON NEXT SUCCEEDING ONE OF SAID MAGNETIC CORES, A SECOND OF SAID TWO COUPLING CIRCUITS COMPRISING A SECOND TAPPED WINDING MEANS WOUND ON SAID GIVEN MAGNETIC CORE AND A SECOND WINDING MEANS WOUND ON SAID NEXT PRECEDING MAGNETIC CORE, FIRST TERMINALS AND SAID FIRST AND SECOND WINDING MEANS BEING CONNECTED TO FIRST END TERMINALS OF SAID FIRST TAPPED WINDING AND SAID SECOND TAPPED WINDING RESPECTIVELY, A PLURALITY OF CIRCUIT MEANS, INDIVIDUAL ONES OF SAID PLURALITY OF CIRCUIT MEANS CONNECTING THE SECOND TERMINALS OF EACH OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND WINDINGS TO THE SECOND END TERMINALS OF THE ASSOCIATED FIRST TAPPED WINDING AND SECOND TAPPED WINDING RESPECTIVELY, EACH OF SAID CIRCUIT MEANS COMPRISING A FIRST ASYMMETRICALLY CONDUCTING DEVICE HAVING AN ANODE AND A CATHODE, A SECOND ASYMMETRICALLY CONDUCTING DEVICE HAVING AN ANODE AND A CATHODE, A FIRST RESISTANCE, AND A SECOND RESISTANCE CONNECTED IN SERIES ARRANGEMENT IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THE ANODE OF SAID FIRST ASYMMETRICAL DEVICE IS CONNECTED TO THE SAID SECOND TER-