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An apparatus for driving a gauge having coils in quadrature to generate a resultant magnetic field in accordance with currents applied thereto and having a pointer angularly swept by the field, the apparatus having a memory to store a first data defining a relationship between a first level, indicative of the current applied to one of the coils, and an angle of the pointer. The first level has a continous waveform varying in isoceles trapezoid form over an angle range of 0.degree. to 180.degree.. The first data varies symmetrically with the isoceles trapezoid wave at the 180.degree. pointer angle over an angle range of 180.degree. to 360.degree.. The memory is arranged to store second data defining a relationship between a second level indicative of the current applied to the other coil and the pointer angle. The second level has a continuous waveform phase shifted by 90.degree. from the continuous waveform of the first data. The apparatus also has an output generator to generate output signals indicative of first and second levels related to the first and second data. A driving circuit is responsive to the output signals to drive the coils with currents proportional to the first and second levels. Each continuous waveform of the first and second data is modified so as to be cut triangularly at its corner portions.

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