Abstract A storage device for the storage of word-organized information, comprising magnetic storage elements which are arranged in a plurality of planes in rows and columns in an identical manner, each of said magnetic storage elements being coupled to a first drive winding which is provided per row, to a second drive winding which is provided per column, and to an inhibit and a sense windings which are provided per plane. Each sense winding is provided with a read amplifier connected thereto. Each of these read amplifiers is provided with a control terminal to which a sense generator is connected for sampling the signals which are induced in the sense windings. Furthermore, an additional surface is provided comprising magnetic storage elements which are arranged in rows and columns in an identical manner as in said planes and which are individually associated with word locations. The storage elements of the additional plane are coupled to a first drive winding which is provided per row and to a second drive winding which is provided per column in order to set the storage elements to one particular remanence state in the case of writing and to set them to the other remanence state in the case of reading of words in the corresponding word locations. For reading the information the storage elements of the additional plane are coupled to a sense winding which is connected to the sense generator in order to apply starting pulses thereto.
A storage device for storage of word-organized information, comprising: magnetic storage elements arranged in an identical manner in rows and columns within a plurality of planes; a first drive winding for each row coupled to each of said storage elements; a second drive winding for each column coupled to each of said storage elements; an inhibit winding for each plane coupled to said windings; a first sense winding for each plane; said first sense winding coupled to respective storage elements situated in a first and a third quadrant of each plane; a first read amplifier for each plane connected to respective first sense windings of each plane; a second sense winding for each plane, said second sense winding coupled to respective storage elements situated in a second and a fourth quadrant of each plane; a second read amplifier for each plane connected to respective second sense windings of each plane; an addition plane of storage elements having a first and a second sense winding extending through the storage elements of the additional plane in an opposite fashion to those sense windings of the other planes; a first sense generator connected to the first sense winding of the additional plane, said first sense generator having an output terminal respectively connected to control terminals of the first read amplifiers; and a second sense generator connected to the second sense winding of the additional plane, said second sense generator having an output terminal respectively connected to control terminals of the second read amplifiers.
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A storage device for storage of word-organized information, comprising: magnetic storage elements arranged in an identical manner in rows and columns within a plurality of planes; a first drive winding for each row coupled to each of said storage elements; a second drive winding for each column coupled to each of said storage elements; an inhibit winding for each plane coupled to said windings; a first sense winding for each plane; said first sense winding coupled to respective storage elements situated in a first and a third quadrant of each plane; a first read amplifier for each plane connected to respective first sense windings of each plane; a second sense winding for each plane, said second sense winding coupled to respective storage elements situated in a second and a fourth quadrant of each plane; a second read amplifier for each plane connected to respective second sense windings of each plane; an addition plane of storage elements having a first and a second sense winding extending through the storage elements of the additional plane in an opposite fashion to those sense windings of the other planes; a first sense generator connected to the first sense winding of the additional plane, said first sense generator having an output terminal respectively connected to control terminals of the first read amplifiers; and a second sense generator connected to the second sense winding of the additional plane, said second sense generator having an output terminal respectively connected to control terminals of the second read amplifiers.