Electronic control of knitting machines

Apparatus for the electronic control of a knitting machine having knitting systems for knitting a fabric, said apparatus comprising:

• a storage device including an information store, in which the information of a knitting pattern can be stored in block form with every information block containing all the information for one knitted course of said fabric, and including means for producing color lines for deriving color lines from every information block, each color line containing all the information relating to a particular color or property of one of said courses;
• and further comprising a plurality of storage units, a distributor means for feeding the color lines derived by said color lines produced means to said plurality of storage units, the storage units being positively associated with said knitting systems and said distributor means including a programming means for feeding the color lines derived from each information block to any pre-selected number of the plurality of storage units and for feeding each color line derived from an information block to any pre-selected storage unit of said number of storage units.