Abstract: A palm print identification system including a scanning probe translatable in contact with a human palm along a scan line. The probe may comprise one or more roller or drag probes, including light illumination and photodector means arranged to generate electrical signals representative of the pattern of palm lines. The spacing of palm lines as thus sensed is compared with a master read from an I.D. card or stored in a computer for I.D. verification.

Abstract: A changeable exhibitor, with or without keyboard structure, is rendered self-restoring by use of a flexible strip arranged to lie in a selectable looped position indicative of the data being exhibited or being entered into an associated data processing system. The strip is fixed adjacent its ends and overlies a series of aligned apertures in a base. The strip is longer than the distance between its fixed ends so that it will loop into one of the apertures, one being provided for each data bit. As a different part of the strip is looped by a stylus, depressible key, or the like, into a different one of the apertures to exhibit or enter a different data bit, the first loop is concurrently and automatically recalled. A plurality of parallel independently flexible strips are arranged as a matrix exhibitor/keyboard, and bands of alternate colors aid in visually distinguishing the entered data from the unentered data.