Programmable trainer

Claim 1

A universal trainer comprising: a magnetic tape with electrical signals disposed thereon, magnetic tape reader means to read said magnetic tape, said tape reader means providing electrical signals corresponding to recorded instructions which define a plurality of equations commensurate with a program model; means for storing information corresponding to an entire program model, said storing means having terminals at which signals corresponding to individual instructions may be presented; means connected to said tape reader means and said storing means for transferring the instructions corresponding to an entire program model into and reading individual instructions out of said storing means, said transferring means including an instruction register for generating logic voltage levels for implementing command algorithms corresponding to individual of the instructions which comprise the program model; display means, said display means including removable student reaction panel and a graphic representation of the lesson subject on said removable student display-reaction panel, said panel including student operable switches, said display means also including a plurality of display devices, said program model and said panel cooperating to program the trainer to simulate a special lesson; clock means for continuously generating a plurality of timing signals; means coupling timing signals generated by said clock means to said storing means to cause the recirculation of the entire program model in said storing means whereby the equations which define the program model are continuously evaluated by periodic presentation of individual instructions to said transferring means instruction register at said storing means terminals; decoder means connected to said transferring means instruction register and responsive to information commensurate with instructions temporarily present therein in the form of logic voltage levels for generating control signals; means connected to said panel means and responsive to said decoder means generated control signals for periodically and individually enabling the switch inputs from said panel means commensurate with the instruction present in said transferring means instruction register; means for generating a coded signal commensurate with an abnormal condition represented by a portion of the program model; and display control means connected between said means for periodically and individually enabling student input switches and said display means, said display control means being responsive to said decoder means generated control signals and said coded signals for controlling at least a first display device commensurate with a portion of the program model determined by the state of said coded signal generating means, said transferring means instruction register and said panel switches.