Associative memory apparatus using elastic switching storage elements

Claim 1

IN A DIGITAL MEMORY STORAGE SYSTEM ADAPTED FOR ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY THE COMBINATION OF A MEMORY UNIT, A PLURALITY OF TOROIDAL FERRITE MAGNETIC CORES COMPRISING THE MEMORY UNIT, THE CORES BEING ARRANGED IN COLUMNS WITH CORRESPONDING CORES IN EACH COLUMN BEING PHYSICALLY IN ALIGNED ROWS, A COIL WRAPPED ON EACH CORE, A SINGLE BIAS LINE PASSING THROUGH EACH CORE OF EACH ALIGNED COLUMN OF CORES, A SINGLE STROBE LINE PASSING THROUGH EACH CORE OF EACH ALIGNED COLUMN OF CORES, A SENSING MEANS ON EACH CORE, MEANS TO PLACE A WORD INTO MEMORY AS BITS OF INFORMATION STORED AS A SET FLUX PATTERN IN EACH INDIVIDUAL CORE IN EACH ROW OF ALIGNED CORES IN THE MEMORY UNIT, MEANS TO PLACE A COMPARE WORD INTO MEMORY SO THAT EACH BIT OF INFORMATION OF THE COMPARE WORD IS ALIGNED WITH THE COLUMNS OF CORRESPONDING BITS OF THE WORDS STORED IN THE MEMORY UNIT, MEANS TO SEQUENTIALLY PULSE EACH BIAS LINE WITH A SIGNAL OF LESS MAGNITUDE THAN SUFFICIENT TO SWITCH THE FLUX DIRECTION IN THE CORES, MEANS TO APPLY SAID SIGNAL IN SUCH A DIRECTION SO AS TO OPPOSE THE FLUX DIRECTION IN EACH ALIGNED COMPARE WORD BIT, MEANS TO SEQUENTIALLY, BUT SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TIME WITH EACH BIAS PULSE, PULSE EACH STROBE LINE WITH A SIGNAL OF GREATER MAGNITUDE THAN SUFFICIENT TO SWITCH THE FLUX DIRECTION IN THE