Abstract: Apparatus for the electronic control of a knitting machine of the type comprising a storage device having an information store in which the information of a knitting pattern is stored in block form with every information block containing all the information for one course. The information blocks are broken down into color lines related to the particular colors being knitted, and a distributor mechanism is arranged to feed the color lines to the storage units of a working store, the storage units being associated with respective knitting systems of the knitting machine. The distributor mechanism includes a programming mechanism in the form of a selector matrix controlled by a cross-bar distributor and which determines which knitting system will receive the information for any information block selected from the storage device.