how fast were drum memories?

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Thu May 10 15:26:41 CDT 2018


and this says they are 880 rpm

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fastrand.html


On 5/10/18 1:25 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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> On 5/10/18 1:17 PM, Jack Harper via cctalk wrote:
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>> Chuck, do you know if the story that the FASTRAND drum was fabricated from milled/machined sewer pipe is true???
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> it appears one still exists
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> https://collection.maas.museum/object/261170
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> the decade is wrong.
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> and
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luPM6XaKZuU
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