FASTRAND was a magnetic drum mass storage system built by Sperry Rand Corporation (later Sperry Univac) for their UNIVAC 1100 series and 418/490/494 series...

Corporation Sperry Rand Corporation Unisys Corporation FASTRAND History of computing hardware List of UNIVAC products FIELDATA Unisys BINAC, mentioned above...

for Police and demand terminal users 9 x FASTRAND-III drums (198 million characters per drum) 2 x Frontend UNIVAC 418-II for county council and telex terminals...

secondary storage as for example various IBM drum storage drives and the UNIVAC FASTRAND series of drums. Drums were displaced as primary computer memory by...

[circular reference] UNIVAC 40 UNIVAC 60 UNIVAC 120 UNIVAC I UNIVAC 1101 UNIVAC 1102 UNIVAC 1103 UNIVAC 1104 UNISERVO tape drive UNIVAC High speed printer...

UNIVAC III systems could have up to 32 tape drives. Some systems were equipped at a later time with a random-access FASTRAND drum. List of UNIVAC products...

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...

The UNIVAC 1050 was a variable word-length (one to 16 characters) decimal and binary computer. It was initially announced in May 1962 as an off-line input-output...

magnetic 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...

resources such as Uniservo tape drives or Fastrand drum files. The control language syntax uses the "@" symbol (which Univac called "the master space") as the...