magnetic drum
nounComputers.
a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
Origin of magnetic drum
1First recorded in 1945–50
- Also called drum, drum memory .
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How to use magnetic drum in a sentence
One magnetic drum unit and 11 disks were reported to be in service (in eight different laboratories).
On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969 | H. W. Fulbright et al.
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