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APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING A LOGICAL OPERATION DEFINED BY A PLURAL-TERM BOOLEAN ALGEBRAIC EQUATION, UPON TRUEFALSE BINARY INPUT SIGNALS REPRESENTING TEMPORAL STATUES OF RESPECTIVE BINARY VARIABLES SPECIFIED IN TERMS OF THE EQUATION, THE LOGICAL OPERATION TO BE REPRESENTED BY PRODUCTION OF AN OUTPUT POTENTIAL UPON AN OUTPUT LINE, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING: MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF DUAL-INPUT DUAL-OUTPUT CURRENT-SIGNAL PRODUCING DEVICES EACH CORRESPONDING TO A RESPECTIVE VARIABLE OF THE EQUATION AND EACH HAVING A TRUE INPUT SIGNAL LINE, A FALSE SIGNAL INPUT LINE, A TRUE OUTPUT SIGNAL LINE AND A FALSE OUTPUT SIGNAL LINE AND EACH CAPABLE OF ALTERNATIVELY SUPPLYING ON ITS TRUE OUTPUT SIGNAL LINE AN OUTPUT CURRENT-SIGNAL OR ON ITS FALSE OUTPUT SIGNAL LINE A FALSE OUTPUT CURRENT-SIGNAL IN RESPONSE TO RESPECTIVE ALTERNATIVE APPLICATION TO THE RESPECTIVE INPUT LINE OF THE DEVICE RESPECTIVE TRUE OR FALSE INPUT SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RESPECTIVE TRUE OR FALSE TEMPORAL STATUS FO THE VARIABLE CORRESPONDING TO THE PARTICULAR CURRENT-SIGNAL PRODUCING DEVICE; MEANS FOR SUPPLYING RESPECTIVE TRUE-FALSE INPUT SIGNALS TO THE TRUE-FALSE INPUT SIGNAL LINES OF SAID CURRENT-SIGNAL PRODUCING DEVICES; A PLURALITY OF BISTABLE MAGNETIC UNITS, EACH FOR AND CORRESPONDING TO A RESPECTIVE TERM OF SAID EQUATION AND EACH INCLUDING A BISTABLE MAGNETIC CORE AND DRIVE WINDING MEANS AND INHIBIT WINDING MEANS AND OUTPUT WINDING MEANS ALL INDUCTIVELY LINKED TO THE CORE, THE INHIBIT WINDING MEANS INCLUDING ONLY INDUCTOR WINDINGS FOR THE CURRENT-SIGNALS REPRESENTING ONLY THE BOOLEAN INVERSES OF THE TRUE-FALSE STATUS OF THE RESPECTIVE VARIABLES IN THE EQUATION TERM CORRESPONDING TO THAT CORE; POWER MEANS CONNECTED TO THE DIRVE WINDING MEANS OF SAID CORE FOR RECURRENTLY TENDING TO REVERSE THAT STATE OF EACH OF THE CORES INDIVIDUALLY AND EFFECTIVE TO SO REVERSE THE STATE OF ANY CORE UNLES SUCH ACTION IS INHIBITED BY A CURRENT-SIGNAL IN AN INHIBIT WINDING LINKED TO THAT CORE; AND MEANS CONNECTING TO RESPECTIVE INHIBIT WINDING MEANS OF INDIVIDUAL ONES OF SAID CORES ONLY THOSE OUTPUT SIGNAL LINES CORRESPONDING TO THE BOOLEAN INVERSES OF THE TRUE-FALSE STATUES OF THE SEVERAL VARIABLES AS SPECIFIED IN THAT TERM OF THE EQUATION CORRESPONDING TO THE INDIVIDUAL CORE; WHEREBY AN OUTPUT SIGNAL IS PRODUCED IN AN OUTPUT WINDING MEANS OF A CORE ONOY WHEN THE INPUT SIGNALS TO SAID CURRENT-SIGNAL PRODUCING DEVICES SATISFY THE RESPECTIVE BOOLEAN ALGEBRAIC EQUATION TERM CORRESPONDING TO THAT CORE.