UNIVAC FASTRAND
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UNIVAC FASTRAND
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FASTRAND was a magnetic drum mass storage system built by Sperry Rand Corporation for their UNIVAC 1100 series and 418/490/494 series computers. A FASTRAND subsystem consisted of one or two Control Units and up to eight FASTRAND units. A dual-access FASTRAND subsystem included two complete control units, and provided parallel data paths that allowed simultaneous operations on any two FASTRAND units in the subsystem. Each control unit interfaced to one 1100 Series (36-bit), or 490 Series (30-bit)
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Magnetic drum mass storage system
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2024-02-14T20:23:28Z
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