Abstract: A master clock for a microprogrammed digital computer generates output pulses whose separation in time can be varied in response to each microinstruction or to a process-related signal. The output pulses are formed from basic time units from a clock generator which are combined, in digital logic circuitry, to form a minimum time interval and supplemented, under command, with the necessary additional time units to delay the next output pulse by the required amount of time.

Abstract: A surveying instrument sensor which includes a gimbal supported for rotation within a casing, a torquer coupled to rotate the gimbal with a first two-axis flexure suspended gyro supported on the gimbal with its spin axis perpendicular to the axis of the gimbal and one of its sensitive axes aligned with the axis of the gimbal, a second two-axis flexure suspended gyro disposed on the gimbal with its spin axis alinged with the axis of the gimbal and having two sensitive axes outputs orthogonal thereto. The output of the first gyro is coupled to the torquer to form a gimbal stabilized loop and the outputs and torquing inputs of the second gimbal coupled into rate capture loops with output signals obtained from the rate captured loops permitting fast and accurate surveying of a well pipe.