Abstract:
The present invention concerns a system for recording audio signals on a record medium cooperating with a transducer means, with the record media having a plurality of segment storage areas, such as individual storage areas on a tape, belt or card, or the like, and with storage of information taking place on a sentence, paragraph, or letter basis under dictator control. The system includes means mounting a record medium for transducing operations to record and reproduce signals, a microphone input means having control buttons and a separate control panel with provision for random selection of signal tracks on the medium. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a magnetic tape or belt medium recording-reproducing console with tracks on the medium arranged to store audio information by sentences, paragraphs, and letters. The unit may also be used for transcription purposes with accessing of the information under transcriber control.
Abstract:
An electronic display typing system for use by professional accountants and statisticians. A cathode-ray display is alternately utilized to display the contents of a worksheet storage containing all of the entries and identifications normally placed by an accountant on his worksheet and to display a scratch pad storage which is utilized by the accountant for routine, off-the-worksheet calculations. A movable marker symbol is displayed on the CRT display and is utilized to address the data contents of the worksheet storage. Placement of the marker symbol controls the storage locations which receive data entered from a keyboard and also is utilized to specify the data to be operated on during an arithmetic operation. Continuous movement of the marker symbol during an arithmetic operation effects repetition of the arithmetic operation for each field of numbers addressed by the marker symbol. A sequence of arithmetic operations and marker symbol motions can be ''''learned'''' and later utilized as a stored program to thus control a plurality of repetitive operations. The contents of the worksheet storage may thereafter be automatically printed.