Compartment storage container with electronically addressable compartments

An array of compartment storage containers for enabling remote location and retrieval of objects located in the containers, said array comprising:

• a plurality of compartment storage containers each having a base wall, a plurality of upstanding wall members connected to said base wall, said base wall and said plurality of upstanding wall members defining an enclosure volume, a plurality of upstanding partition members located within said enclosure volume and defining a plurality of compartments for receiving objects, a plurality of address decoders each positioned in a different one of said plurality of compartments and each having a unique address, an electrical input connector secured to one of said upstanding wall members and ohmically coupled to said plurality of address decoders for providing compartment search signals to said plurality of address decoders, an electrical output connector secured to one of the upstanding wall members and ohmically coupled to the electrical input connector, and a plurality of light sources each electrically coupled to a different one of said plurality of address decoders and activatable thereby whenever one of said compartment search signals specifies an address matching the address of the associated one of said plurality of address decoders, the output connector of some of said compartment storage containers being coupled to the input connectors of other ones of said compartment storage containers to form an electrically intercoupled array;
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• a controller having an output coupled to the input connector of one of said plurality of compartment storage containers for providing compartment search signals supplied by a source to said plurality of address decoders, said compartment search signals being coupled to all of said compartment storage containers in said electrically intercoupled array so that said compartment search signals are coupled to all of said plurality of address decoders in any of said compartment storage containers in said intercoupled array.