-
series computers. A
FASTRAND subsystem consisted of one or two
Control Units and up to
eight FASTRAND units. A dual-access
FASTRAND subsystem included...
-
storage as for
example various IBM drum
storage drives and the
UNIVAC FASTRAND series of drums.
Drums were
displaced as
primary computer memory by magnetic...
- (Flying Head) drum FH-880 (Flying Head) drum FH-1782 (Flying Head) drum
FASTRAND drum
drive RANDEX drum
drive UNISERVO I tape
drive UNISERVO II tape drive...
-
Communication Processors C/SP for
Police and
demand terminal users 9 x
FASTRAND-III
drums (198
million characters per drum) 2 x
Frontend UNIVAC 418-II...
- drives. Some
systems were
equipped at a
later time with a random-access
FASTRAND drum. List of
UNIVAC products History of
computing hardware "Pittsburgh...
-
Corporation Sperry Corporation Sperry Rand
Corporation Unisys Corporation FASTRAND History of
computing hardware List of
UNIVAC products FIELDATA Unisys BINAC...
- tape cartridges, e.g., IBM 3850, and drums, e.g.,
Burroughs B430,
UNIVAC FASTRAND, but all
ultimately were
displaced by HDDs. The IBM 1301 Disk
Storage Unit...
- system, had some
extra peripherals. The most
significant of
these was the
FASTRAND 1 Drum
Storage Unit. This
physically large device had two contra-rotating...
- FH-432) to 2MW (in the FH-1782). The
highest capacity m****
storage was the
FASTRAND drum,
which held 22 MW (99 MB). File
fragmentation was
dealt with by a...
- drum for
swapping storage. To this end, BBN
acquired the
first UNIVAC FASTRAND rotating drum, with a 45-Mbyte
storage capacity and an
access time of about...
