Sperry Rand Corporation

Alan D Kaske

Ernest J Torok

Maynard C Paul

John A Krawczak

James V Drexler

Kenneth L Pearson

A method of and an apparatus for reading out the information that is stored in the magnetizable layer of a cross-tie wall memory system is disclosed. The apparatus utilizes: a conductive pillar that is centered over and is conductively coupled to the Bloch-line position in the memory segment of the cross-tie wall in the magnetizable layer; a conductive ring that is oriented concentric to the pillar and that is conductively coupled to the magnetizable layer; and a readout device that is coupled across the pillar and ring for determining the resistance in the magnetizable layer between the pillar and ring as an indication of the existence or not of a Bloch-line in the memory segment.

Magneto-resistive readout of a cross-tie wall memory system using a

A time of event recorder in which a Gray Code counter is regularly advanced at a predetermined frequency by a crystal controlled oscillator and the outputs from the counter stages are applied to the digit lines of a MATED FILM memory array, such that when an event associated with a given word line of the memory occurs, the counter contents at the time of occurrence of the event are stored in that memory word register. A second array of MATED FILM elements is also provided which has its digit lines energized at a fixed submultiple of the frequency of the crystal controlled oscillator to provide greater accuracy and resolution than is obtainable from the Gray Code counter. The elapsed time between two events may be obtained by reading out two words from the memory and determining the difference in counts associated with the two events under consideration.

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