Chuck, do you know if the story that the FASTRAND drum was fabricated from milled/machined sewer pipe is true???

Another apocryphal(?) story is that a FASTRAND unit lies today at the bottom of Tokyo Bay from when it fell from a freighter unloading crane.

...would have made a bit of a splash :)


Regards to the List -

Jack




Didn't the FASTRAND have "ping" detectors that would register a count
every time a head hit the surface?  I recall that the binary-encoded
positioner mechanism was composed of a bunch of solenoids and levers
that could convert a binary input to a head position. (The FASTRAND was
a moveable head, not a head-per-track drum).

--Chuck

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