GB765664A - Improvements in or relating to electrical intelligence storage equipment - Google Patents
Improvements in or relating to electrical intelligence storage equipmentInfo
- Publication number
- GB765664A GB765664A GB7831/53A GB783153A GB765664A GB 765664 A GB765664 A GB 765664A GB 7831/53 A GB7831/53 A GB 7831/53A GB 783153 A GB783153 A GB 783153A GB 765664 A GB765664 A GB 765664A
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- Prior art keywords
- digit
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04Q—SELECTING
- H04Q3/00—Selecting arrangements
- H04Q3/42—Circuit arrangements for indirect selecting controlled by common circuits, e.g. register controller, marker
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- G06F13/00—Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units
- G06F13/14—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer
- G06F13/16—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer for access to memory bus
- G06F13/1668—Details of memory controller
- G06F13/1689—Synchronisation and timing concerns
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- G06F15/00—Digital computers in general; Data processing equipment in general
- G06F15/04—Digital computers in general; Data processing equipment in general programmed simultaneously with the introduction of data to be processed, e.g. on the same record carrier
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- G06K17/00—Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
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- G—PHYSICS
- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
- G11B20/00—Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing; Circuits therefor
- G11B20/10—Digital recording or reproducing
- G11B20/14—Digital recording or reproducing using self-clocking codes
- G11B20/1403—Digital recording or reproducing using self-clocking codes characterised by the use of two levels
- G11B20/1407—Digital recording or reproducing using self-clocking codes characterised by the use of two levels code representation depending on a single bit, i.e. where a one is always represented by a first code symbol while a zero is always represented by a second code symbol
- G11B20/1419—Digital recording or reproducing using self-clocking codes characterised by the use of two levels code representation depending on a single bit, i.e. where a one is always represented by a first code symbol while a zero is always represented by a second code symbol to or from biphase level coding, i.e. to or from codes where a one is coded as a transition from a high to a low level during the middle of a bit cell and a zero is encoded as a transition from a low to a high level during the middle of a bit cell or vice versa, e.g. split phase code, Manchester code conversion to or from biphase space or mark coding, i.e. to or from codes where there is a transition at the beginning of every bit cell and a one has no second transition and a zero has a second transition one half of a bit period later or vice versa, e.g. double frequency code, FM code
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- G—PHYSICS
- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
- G11B20/00—Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing; Circuits therefor
- G11B20/10—Digital recording or reproducing
- G11B20/14—Digital recording or reproducing using self-clocking codes
- G11B20/1403—Digital recording or reproducing using self-clocking codes characterised by the use of two levels
- G11B20/1423—Code representation depending on subsequent bits, e.g. delay modulation, double density code, Miller code
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- G—PHYSICS
- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11C—STATIC STORES
- G11C11/00—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor
- G11C11/21—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using electric elements
- G11C11/22—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using electric elements using ferroelectric elements
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L13/00—Details of the apparatus or circuits covered by groups H04L15/00 or H04L17/00
- H04L13/02—Details not particular to receiver or transmitter
- H04L13/08—Intermediate storage means
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L25/00—Baseband systems
- H04L25/02—Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines
- H04L25/20—Repeater circuits; Relay circuits
- H04L25/24—Relay circuits using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices
- H04L25/242—Relay circuits using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices with retiming
- H04L25/245—Relay circuits using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices with retiming for start-stop signals
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- Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
- Signal Processing (AREA)
- Computer Networks & Wireless Communication (AREA)
- Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
- General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Power Engineering (AREA)
- Indexing, Searching, Synchronizing, And The Amount Of Synchronization Travel Of Record Carriers (AREA)
Abstract
765,664. Electric digital-data-storage apparatus. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd. March 20, 1953, No. 7831/53. Class 106(1). Equipment for storing intelligence comprises a number of stores with which are associated recording and reading means, each store being available to any one of a number of user equipments, and a control circuit associated with the recording and reading means and including means responsive to an electrical condition in. dicating that one of the user equipments requires a store whereby a free store is temporarily allocated to that user equipment and the allocation maintained throughout a plurality of examinations of the store by the reading means. The invention is applied to an intelligence storage system of the type described in Specifications 744,352, 744,356, 744,357 and 744,358. In a first embodiment each of a plurality of tracks on a magnetic drum are divided into a number of lengths, and two lengths 180 degrees apart form a single storage section. While a read/record head is reading one length, a similar head diametrically opposite is recording upon the other length. However, by employing a compound reading/recording circuit, a single length of track could be used. In addition to storage tracks ST on a drum MD, Fig. 1, a clock pulse track ET and a track MT giving pulses marking the beginning of each length or section are provided. The former operates a counter EC, advancing it by the number of digital spaces in a section (e.g. 48) and, via pulse former PF and delay devices D1, D2, provides three staggered pulses t1, t2, t3 during each clock pulse period: the latter serves to return the counter EC to its initial state at the beginning of each section. Each storage section serves a plurality (e.g. ten) input or " caller " lines T1, T2, &c. which are identified with digit places 2 to 11, respectively, in each section. Fig. 9 is a time chart indicating the functions of the 48 digital spaces in a complete storage section. Associated with channel circuits CC1, CC2, CC3 between the incoming trunks T1, T2, T3 and the outgoing trunks TO1, TO2, TO3 is an electronic scanning circuit SCB which hunts over the channels in search of a channel needing a store for the regeneration of a series of digits. It is connected to equipment RSB which controls reading, recording, and insertion and extraction of information to and from the store. Receipt of first digit. A scale of ten. counter or register (F14, not shown) is stepped on by pulses from the clock track during the passage of digit places 2 to 11 before the read/write head. When a " calling " condition occurs on one of the associated lines (say, line " 4 "), the register is stopped at the corresponding stage (digit place 5). The calling condition is then disabled (to avoid " seizure " of successive stores), and an appropriately positioned auxiliary head, operating at digit time 31, as shown in Fig. 9, records a positive " busy " signal in digit place " 1 " of the store. At the end of the first scanning of this store a positive recording at digit place 48 zeroizes the control circuit in readiness for control of the next storage section. After 180 degrees rotation, the store being considered again passes a read/record head. The signal in the first position is read and rerecorded (see " PN2," Fig. 9); the signal in digit place 5 stops the register in its fourth position, and this signal and the others are detected and re-recorded. This process is repeated at each subsequent scanning and the number of excursions are counted and recorded in binary form in digit places 15 to 19. The counting is performed-as in the cases referred to-by reading the recorded binary elements and reversing all up to and including the first binary " O," after which re-recording continues without any change. When the first digit impulse is received on the marked " caller " line, a mark is recorded at digit place 32 in the section D1 allocated for recording in binary form the first digit from the seized " caller " line; the second, third and fourth digits are later recorded in sections D2, D3 and D4 respectively. Each digit impulse lasts for several excursions of the storage section, the actual number of such excursions being counted in the section R. If, due to a fault in the system, the impulse should persist beyond a certain maximum time the process of counting brings a mark into digit place 19 which causes forced release of the circuit. Normally, however, when the impulse ends, a mark is recorded in digit place 14, the count in digit places 15 to 19 is deleted and then recommences to count the excusions until the second impulse begins. Each subsequent impulse increases the value of the binary number in D1 by one. The completion of a digit is determined by detecting the length of pause between impulses. If the counting in R reaches digit place 17 it is assumed that a digit has been completed; marks are recorded in places 20 and 21. and the recording of subsequent impulses takes place in the next digit position (D2). Retransmission of first digit. The completion of the recording to the first digit causes it to be re-recorded in the form of its complement, and retransmission commences. As each impulse .is sent " 1 " is added to the complement in D 1 so that when all the elements in D1 are " mark " the digit will have been completely retransmitted. Each regenerated impulse starts at digit place 48 and lasts for four excursions which are counted in section S (digit places 25 to 30). After a digit has been completely retransmitted a pause of at least 36 excursions is timed by counting in Section S. During the interdigital pause other digits can be received and stored. General. The routing of digits to their places on the section is controlled by counters in the control circuit in accordance with intelligence read off the track. One counter routes received digits. to the appropriate portions of the store, stepping at the end of each digit, while a second,counter is used to determine whether retransmission can occur, and a third routes the digits out. The counters are set to positions appropriate to the store which is being scanned by intelligence read from that section. When all the digits have been received and retransmitted, the marks in digit places 1 and 5 are not re-recorded and therefore the store is again available for seizure by any of the ten associated " caller " channels. The circuits for performing the functions outlined above are built up from rectifier gates such as G120, G124, Fig. 13, cold-cathode tube flip-flops such as F8, and counters or registers such as C2 Fig. 14 (not shown). In a second embodiment, a matrix of magnetic cores (Fig. 16, not shown) takes the place of each magnetic drum storage, and in a third embodiment a ferro-electric matrix is used. Specifications 692,415, 713,902, [Group XL (c)], 765,072, 765,665, [Group XXXIX], and 765,666 also are referred to.
Priority Applications (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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GB7831/53A GB765664A (en) | 1951-05-23 | 1953-03-20 | Improvements in or relating to electrical intelligence storage equipment |
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GB12060/51A GB744352A (en) | 1953-03-20 | 1951-05-23 | Improvements in or relating to intelligence storage equipment |
GB7831/53A GB765664A (en) | 1951-05-23 | 1953-03-20 | Improvements in or relating to electrical intelligence storage equipment |
GB783453A GB765072A (en) | 1953-03-20 | 1953-03-20 | Improvements in or relating to data processing equipment |
NL794126X | 1954-06-25 | ||
GB1941057A GB845216A (en) | 1957-06-20 | 1957-06-20 | Improvements in or relating to electrical calculating circuits |
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GB765664A true GB765664A (en) | 1957-01-09 |
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GB7831/53A Expired GB765664A (en) | 1951-05-23 | 1953-03-20 | Improvements in or relating to electrical intelligence storage equipment |
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Cited By (1)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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FR2312160A1 (en) * | 1975-05-17 | 1976-12-17 | Telefonbau & Normalzeit Gmbh | Scanning condition monitor for telephone exchanges - has four synchronised circulating memories incliding dialling bits and past history |
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Cited By (1)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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FR2312160A1 (en) * | 1975-05-17 | 1976-12-17 | Telefonbau & Normalzeit Gmbh | Scanning condition monitor for telephone exchanges - has four synchronised circulating memories incliding dialling bits and past history |
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