10 May
2018
10 May
'18
2:12 p.m.
On 05/10/2018 01:17 PM, Jack Harper via cctalk wrote:
Chuck, do you know if the story that the FASTRAND drum was fabricated
from milled/machined sewer pipe is true???
I remember hearing the joke that the (2 counter-rotating) drums were
chrome-plated sewer pipe, but I would find that hard to believe.
IIT, I think it was, had one installed on their 1108, which was on the
second floor of a refurbished old building. I heard a story that pretty
early on, the Univac field people were mystified by clusters of "pings"
on the FASTRAND. It turned out that every time a good-sized truck went
down S. Michigan Ave, the pinging would start.
--Chuck