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Claim 1

A PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR A UNIT OF COPY COMPRISING, KEYBOARD-ACTUATED TRANSCRIBED MEANS TO CONVERT THE TEXT OF SAID COPY WHEN KEYBOARDED INTO A FIRST STRING OF CODING, PROGRAM-CONTROLLED DATA PROCESSING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID STRING TO ASSIGN AN INDEX NUMBER TO SAID STRING AND TO SUBDIVIDE SAID STRING INTO SUBSTRINGS OF CODING AND TO ASSIGN LINE NUMBERS TO THOSE SUBSTRINGS, PRINTER MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID PROCESSING MEANS TO PRODUCE A PRINTED UNCODED OUTPUT COPY BEARING SAID INDEX NUMBER AND THE LINES OF TEXT AND LINE NUMBERS CORRESPONING TO SAID SUBSTRINGS, AND DATA STORAGE MEANS COUPLED TO SAID PROCESSING MEANS TO STORE SAID SUBSTRINGS IN MEMORY, SAID STORAGE MEANS BEING RESPONSIVE TO SAID INDEX NUMBER AND TO SELECTED LINE NUMBERS WHEN SUBSEQUENTLY KEYBOARDED ON SAID TRANSCRIBER MEANS AND TRANSMITTED AS CODINGS TO SAID PROCESSING MEANS TO SELECTIVELY CALL OUT FROM MEMORY AND SUPPLY TO SAID PROCESSING MEANS THE ONES OF SAID SUBSTRINGS CORRESPONDING TO THOSE SELECTED LINE NUMBERS, SAID CALLED-OUT SUBSTRINGS REPRESENTING SAVED LINES OF TEXT OF SAID OUTPUT COPY AS REVISED, AND SAID PROCESSING MEANS BEING RESPONSIVE TO SAID CALLEDOUT SUBSTRINGS AND TO SUBSTRINGS DERIVED FROM A KEYBOARDING IN FULL ON SAID TRANSCRIBER MEANS OF EACH CHANGED LINE OF TEXT OF SAID OUTPUT COPY AS REVISED TO MERGE SUCH TWO SETS OF SUBSTRINGS SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR CONTROL OF SAID PRINTER MEANS A SECOND STRING OF CODINGS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FULL TEXT OF A REVISED VERSION OF SAID OUTPUT COPY.