fixed head

noun

a recording head in a tape recorder or disk drive that cannot be moved relative to the center of the disk, offering reduced access time.

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Examples from the Web for fixed head

Two of the fixed-head tracks are devoted to the display: they drive a hardware-translator continuously.
On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969|H. W. Fulbright et al.