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| | FASTRAND - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | FASTRAND was a magnetic drum mass storage system built by Sperry Rand Corporation for their UNIVAC 1100 series computers. | | | The size of one track of this drum, 1792 36-bit-words, is the origin for the Fastrand-Format also used on disk drives for UNIVAC 1100 series computers. | | | The gyroscopic effect of this caused the unit to move about the computer room! |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTRAND
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| | Office of Instructional Technology Staff |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | The mass-storage system was based around a Fastrand 1792 Drum. |
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http://www.oit.mnscu.edu/pages/staff_thomas.html
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| | MSCS: Week Nine |
| | The Fastrand introduced by Univac in 1966 was the first random access secondary storage device. | | | Drums simply waited for the data to rotate into position under the read/write head. | | | 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. |
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http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/courses/COMP305/2005T1/LectureNotes/WeekNine.shtml
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| | Plan 9 /sys/man//2/rand |
| | Truerand and ntruerand maintain a static file descriptor. | | | rand, lrand, frand, nrand, lnrand, srand, truerand, ntruerand, fastrand, nfastrand – random number generator |
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http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/magic/man2html/2/rand
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| | I also worked on a number of different storage drum systems. | | | This drum technology finally culminated in a system call the Univac Fastrand. | | | This system could store the then phenomenal amount of 100's of Megabytes of data. |
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http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=10623
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| | fastrand - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "fastrand" is defined. | | | We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word fastrand: |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=fastrand&loc=resrd
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| | Koders - aging.c |
| | x = fastrand() % (width * 256); scratches[i]. | | | life) { y2 = height; } else { y2 = fastrand() % height; } for(y=y1; y |
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http://www.koders.com/c/fid7A1099DE9627C12AE9293F84F0111A743FF16B83.aspx
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| | Koders - utils.c |
| | */ unsigned int fastrand_val; unsigned int fastrand() { return (fastrand_val=fastrand_val*1103515245+12345); } void fastsrand(unsigned int seed) { fastrand_val = seed; } |
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http://www.koders.com/c/fid5CC169DD21E129E1B8B77CC39D54BF0AA22C0CEF.aspx
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| | List of UNIVAC products - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This page was last modified 22:12, 11 November 2005. | | | UNIVAC® has been, over the years, a registered trademark of Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, Remington Rand Corporation, Sperry Rand Corporation, Sperry Corporation, and Unisys Corporation. | | | FASTRAND® is a trademark of Sperry Rand Corporation, since merged into Unisys Corporation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Univac_products
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| | UniVacky |
| | He quickly dialed a low-speed line And then keyed in his site-id He typed @RUN and then sat back To wield his CRT. | | | He tore it from the pagewriter And hung it in the hall. | | | All idle was the CPU Production had just FINned. |
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http://www.transsys.com/~louie/univac/univacy.html
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