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		People who have used a 100 megabyte hard drive that weighed two and a quarter tons and cost more than US$130,000 in 1968 experience a special sense of wonder when tucking one of today's 2.1 gigabyte drives, just purchased for less than US$1000 and weighing less than half a kilo, into their pocket.
		The FASTRAND Page turns the clock back to the days when mass storage was massive.
		FASTRAND is a trademark of Sperry Rand Corporation, since merged into
	www.fourmilab.ch /documents/univac (963 words)

	FASTRAND - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		FASTRAND was a magnetic drum mass storage system built by Sperry Rand Corporation for their UNIVAC 1100 series computers.
		FASTRAND I had a single drum rotating at about 15 RPM.
		FASTRAND III increased the recording density by 50%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FASTRAND (141 words)

	MSCS: Week Nine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pictured above is Univac's Fastrand II drum used with the Univac 1108 in the last 1960s.
		It had a window on the front to allow operators (or the public if the drum was placed appropriately) to watch the drum in operation.
		The Fastrand introduced by Univac in 1966 was the first random access secondary storage device.
	www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz /courses/COMP305/2005T1/LectureNotes/WeekNine.shtml (388 words)

	UniVacky (Site not responding. Last check: )
		UniVacky Twas BRKPT and the I/O queue Was SYMming fastrand to the wind.
		He tore it from the pagewriter And hung it in the hall.
		Twas BRKPT and the I/O queue Was SYMming fastrand to the wind.
	www.transsys.com /~louie/univac/univacy.html (267 words)

	Office of Instructional Technology Staff (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Using beads and fabric matrix to store information has an ancient origin, so seems particularly appropriate that the first generation of digital storage was hand-woven by bearers of the tradition.
		Data, on the Fastrand was stored upon two four-foot-long precision-ground steel drums.
		This behemoth system weighed-thousands of pounds and consumed prodigious amounts of electricity, yet the storage capacity was miniscule when compared to today's standard desktop computer.
	www.oit.mnscu.edu /pages/staff_thomas.html (1756 words)

	Dear Cali, (Tech Questions? Answered.) » Archive » Disc or Disk?
		Oh, yeah, The FASTRAND II had two long counter-rotating drums, one mounted directly above the other.
		That’s ‘cuz the original FASTRAND was inclined to walk across the floor — its single drum was a gyroscope.
		As impressive a machine as it was, Its capacity (roughly 90 MB formatted as we measure things today) and speed were less than what you can get with a litlle flash drive today.
	www.dearcali.com /disc-or-disk (1705 words)

	Virtual Report Processing
		This drum technology finally culminated in a system call the Univac Fastrand.
		Today hard drives that can fit in your hand and are mounted in PC's can hold more data than the Fastrand drum system did.
		I was promoted to System Engineer and headed the group of technicians who performed final test on these Fastrand systems.
	www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=10623 (10156 words)

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