Docs avail: Vermont Research Model 1016 Drum Memory (1969)

Thu Jun 8 21:06:55 CDT 2006

On 6/8/2006 at 12:40 PM Billy Pettit wrote:

>We used some of them at Control Data on the Process Control Computers. I
>liked them; very nice, relieable drums, ran forever.  I would love to find
>one now.  Would complement my old timer nicely.

They were also used in the Star-100 SBUs.  For the life of me, I never
figured out why drums and not disks, but 'twas so.  A lot of military
aircraft computers used them also.  The givewaway there would be the 400 Hz
spindle motor.

Cheers,
Chuck