1963 Sperry Rand UNIVAC FASTRAND Magnetic Drum Computer History Archives Unisys Educational

A Brief Tribute to the Sperry Rand FASTRAND mass storage device of 1963-1970 s One of Sperry Rand's Univac unique contribution to magnetic storage devices Compiled Edited by Mark Greenia Narrated by Joel North Scroll down for details Table of Contents FASTRAND Introduction 0 02 FASTRAND Installations 2 50 U S Air Force Implementation 2 55 FASTRAND Implementations List 5 00 U S Navy Implementation 5 09 Australia Message Relay Switching Cntr 5 30 NASA Goddard 5 55 Travelers Insurance Company 6 15 FASTRAND Specifications 6 56 Maintenance Fine Tuning 8 32 Summary Slide 9 13 IMAGE GALLERY 9 47 APPENDIX A Documentation 10 41 Dedication 11 37 Acknowledgements 11 52 FASTRAND Memories Stories 12 08 End Copyright Slide 14 05 With Sincere Thanks to the following Tony Buglione Manager of External Communications and Media Relations Unisys Inc Lynsey Sczechowicz Audiovisual Reference Archivist Hagley Museum and Library Mary Beth Davidson Director Records Information Management Travelers Ins Co Professional Narration Joel North Special Thanks to the VIPClubMN org Retirees former employees spouses others of Unisys Lockheed Martin and their Twin Cities predecessor companies including ERA Remington Rand Univac and others a http 3A 2F 2Fwww VIPClubMN org a Peter Bull President Overseas Telecommunications Veterans Association Australia a http 3A 2F 2Fwww OTVA com a Al Kossow s online archives of computer hardware software documentation more a http 3A 2F 2Fwww Bitsavers org a Robert Brand s Article Univac 418 Paddington Australia a https 3A 2F 2Fzerogees wordpress com 2F2015 2F1 a George Gray s Unisys History Newsletters Ed Thelen s Computer History web site a http 3A 2F 2Fed-thelen org 2Fcomp-hist 2F a Computer History Museum Mountain View CA a http 3A 2F 2Fwww computerhistory org a NASA NIST U S Census Bureau U S Army U S Navy Uploaded by the Computer History Archives Project CHAP an educational research and historical archive

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