In the sixth issue of our magazine in 1974 we told about the device “Pulse” for the control of knowledge of students. Practice operating the machine created by the participants NTTM Donetsk Polytechnic Institute, as well as the feedback from readers has convinced authors of the need to improve the design.
And that’s as a result of the creative efforts of teachers and students “Park” machines programmed training at the Institute now updated: the former, now obsolete, the device replaced the more perfect his fellow “Pulse-3”. The changes were primarily a code memory of the machine, system of checking students ‘ knowledge and the lock-up device. More attractive he became and the appearance of the device. About the new development tell the engineers L. Zinoviev, R. Kovalenko and M. Dinning.
The device consists of five blocks: encoding, in the order of working out of the question and memory correct answers, adder, lock, and reset power.
A coding unit consists of two series-connected switch S7, S8 (see scheme). To the inputs of S7 connected to button S2—S6 record responses. Outputs S8 are connected with the relay memory correct answers K5 — K9. The combination of the connected contacts of the switches S7, S8 determines 48 variants of the code. (In two-digit number indicating the version of the ticket, the first and second figure refer respectively to the switches S7 and S8.)