Toroidal 3D Core Memory - Concept.

I am well aware that i am a bit late to the core memory party, but it might still be a cool science project, to teach and or learn about core memory.

The outer poloidal ring might perhaps read out an entire poloidally placed rings cores all at once, allowing for an entire Poloidal, Radial string of bit addresses to be stored or read simultaneously, in one swoop, perhaps the Ring reader can rotate all along the torus body and move between Poloidal rings, like a address selector.

If a laser could move x y z along the toroidal axis, and the torus was made of or prepared as compact disc materials, we could have a very long, diagonal, twisted toroidal compact disc track read or be written by moving laser, shining top down on a moving ring. like solid toroidal CD. A dense data carrier.

The inner torus can act as a insulator, a ribbed or solid cooling element, or a conductor copper substrate, to lay and rest the thin wired magnetic address grid on, in fact one could use only the solidity of the skeletal grid structure as an open air option.

The simple modular grid design and concept are completely mathematically scalable to our human ability, we can use any torus with any amount of toroidal and poloidal connection or crossing points, wire it up as dense as we we can humanly make it. Perhaps we can use other tools like laser edging, to create thin cross lines across the torus form, then dip or fill the grooves with a conductive material, layer it to make the memory system all thinner on the torus body, perhaps even literally as thin as a chip.

The entire torus surface could actually be treated like a 3D chip's surface, having much more available total area than a simple, single flat square of a chip, and the inside of the mounting torus can be pulled a vacuum on, perhaps to cool multiple square prefabbed, equally spread chips, placed on the torus like motherboard substrate.

Sky is the limit.