Memory device and method of making same

Claim 1

A MEMORY DEVICE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF UNITS EACH BEING A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANE PLATE OF MAGNETIZABLE MATERIAL HAVING HIGH MAGNETIC REMANENCE RELATIVE TO SATURATION AND HAVING APERTURES AT PREDETERMINED MEMORY LOCATIONS PROVIDING RESPECTIVE MAGNETIC STORAGE ELEMENTS POSITIONED ALONG FIRST AND SECOND COORDINATES WITH SAID PLATE UNITS BEING POSITIONED AT SEVERAL PREDETERMINED LOCATIONS ALONG A THIRD COORDINATE, A PLURALITY OF FIRST ENERGIZING MEANS EACH COMPRISING AN INDEPENDENT WINDING RESPECTIVELY LINKING EACH OF SAID ELEMENTS OF A CORRESPONDING ONE OF SAID PLATE UNITS, A PLURALITY OF SECOND ENERGIZING MEANS EACH COMPRISING AN INDEPENDENT WINDING RESPECTIVELY LINKING PREDETERMINED ONES OF SAID ELEMENTS OF SAID PLATE UNITS ALONG SAID FIRST COORDINATE CORRESPONDING TO A PREDETERMINED LOCATION OF SAID SECOND COORDINATE, THE CORRESPONDING APERTURES OF SAID UNITS BEING OF LINEAR ALIGNMENT ALONG SAID THIRD COORDINATE AND EACH OF THE WINDINGS OF SAID SECOND MEANS LINEARLY EXTEND THROUGH CORRESPONDING APERTURES OF SAID UNITS TO LINK EACH OF THE ELEMENTS ALONG THE FIRST COORDINATE WITHIN THE SURFACE DEFINED BY RESPECTIVE PREDETERMINED LOCATIONS OF SAID SECOND AND THIRD COORDINATES, ONLY THOSE ELEMENTS OF SAID DEVICE BEING EXCITED WHICH ARE CONCURRENTLY ENERGIZED BY THEIR FIRST AND SECOND MEANS, SAID UNITS EACH INCLUDING A CONDUCTIVE PLATING LINKING SAID APERTURES TO PROVIDE A RESPECTIVE WINDING OF SAID FIRST ENERGIZING MEANS, SAID UNITS AND THEIR APERTURES BEING ARRANGED TO CONFORM WITH A CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEM, SAID UNITS BEING POSITIONED IN PLANES ALONG THE X AXIS, SAID ELEMENTS BEING RESPECTIVELY POSITIONED IN ROWS ALONT THE Y AXIS, AND IN COLUMNS ALONG THE Z AXIS, EACH OF SAID FIRST MEANS BEING AN X ACCESS WINDING LINKING EACH OF THE ELEMENTS IN ITS UNIT, EACH OF SAID SECOND MEANS BEING A Y ACCESS WINDING LINKING EACH OF THE ELEMENTS IN HE Y, Z PLANE