[TUHS] /dev/drum
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Apr 21 08:10:12 AEST 2018
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Ron Natalie wrote:
> Drums were usually fixed head, although those UNIVACers out there will
> remember the Fastrand drums which had flying head. Massive units looked
> like 6' lengths of sewer pipe covered in iron oxide. It was sort of the
> basis of UNIVAC storage units.
Now you have me remembering (always dangerous)... Our DEC Field Circus
gingerbeer mentioned that he had to maintain a drum, whereby the drum
itself slid back and forth, and he used to take the female operators to,
ahem, view it in action...
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