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...
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Corporation Sperry Rand Corporation Unisys Corporation FASTRAND History of computing hardware List of UNIVAC products FIELDATA Unisys BINAC, mentioned above...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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OS 2200 (redirect from UNIVAC EXEC 8)
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...
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