The Newmanry History

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This switch clears the display and all scores which are in storage.

A control tape is one used to select a set of places on another tape whereon

These places may be all consecutive, or in in la ed groups, either regular

In particular if all the places are consecutive, and if still more

Spanning by a control tape was used for some early versions of mechanical

A compromise, spanning large pieces of text by dial and subdividing these by

Old Robinson has no span counter so that spanning had to be effected by

Wen the places to be selected are not consecutive a control tape or impulse

Some simplification is usually possible: the length of the control tape can

A single control tape /9/H/T and so on can, by imposing the conditions

A single impulse of a tape with the pattern xxxx....xx.x..x.. can, by use

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