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An electronic system and method employing a plurality of record sheets or cards, for teaching, training, quizzing, testing and game playing when a person interacts therewith. In one form, a record card containing printed matter is inserted into a recepticle in a support and caused to move along a gu

An electronic system and method employing a plurality of record sheets or cards, for teaching, training, quizzing, testing and game playing when a person interacts therewith. In one form, a record card containing printed matter is inserted into a recepticle in a support and caused to move along a guide to an operating position where its printed face may be viewed and read. As it so travels, coded information on a border portion of the card is sensed to generate coded electrical signals, which are applied to effect one or more functions such as the programming of a computer, the selection of recordings from a memory, the generation of selected speech signals and sounds thereof, the control of a display or other interactive device or devices, the activation or control of a scoring means or the selective activation of testing electronic circuitry. In another form, one of a plurality of record cards is selectively disposed in a U-shaped recepticle or the like by hand and a coded edge portion thereof is read to generate coded electrical signals to identify the card or its printed contents. The card or sheet is predeterminately positioned and one or more selected areas thereof, which are indicated by printing, are pressed by finger to close selected switches of a plurality of pressure sensitive switches to provide signal or circuit means for performing such functions as answering questions, programming computing electrical circuits, selecting recordings from a memory, activating a display generating select speech from a memory, scoring, etc.

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An interactive information system comprising: (a) a support, (b) means for supporting and predeterminately positioning a record member on said support, which record member contains visually readable indicia and a machine readable code recording extending parallel to an edge of said record member, (c

An interactive information system comprising: (a) a support, (b) means for supporting and predeterminately positioning a record member on said support, which record member contains visually readable indicia and a machine readable code recording extending parallel to an edge of said record member, (c) means supported by said support for automatically reading the code recording of a record member which is predeterminately positioned on said support and generating electrical signals indicative of information defined by said code read, (d) electronic computing means supported by said support for receiving and performing computing functions with respect to electrical signals received from said reading means when reading the machine readable recording of a record member, (e) selectively operable control means operable by a person visually reading the indicia of a record member after it has been read by said reading means and supported by said support for controlling the operation of said electronic computing means in accordance with the signals generated by said reading means when it reads the machine readable recordings of a record member supported by said support, and (f) means supported by said support and controlled by said electronic computing means for intelligibly indicating the results of the operations of said electronic computing means on the data received from said reading means and the operation of said selectively operable control means by the person reading the visually readable data of the record member read by said reading means.