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Article #727Re: Urban legends
From: Mike Van Pelt
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 23:34
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 23:34
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The story Larry Kollar wrote about CDC disks in a truck sounds very similar to a Univac legend, which I've been told was true. They put a Univac 1108 on a destroyer, complete with Fastrand drums. (A Fastrand drum is defined in "The Devil's DP Dictionary" as "A non-floppy rotating medium for the storage of angular momentum.") As in the CDC 18-wheeler story, everything was just fine until they tried to turn. There are two versions of the results: (1) They turned the wheel over, but the destroyer just kept going straight, and (2) the Fastrand drum cabinet ripped up out of the floor and rolled through a bulkhead. This really does have that "Urban Legend" sound to it... Mike Van Pelt
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