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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1991
Takefumi Sakurada, Akishima, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on and/or from an optical card, including a plurality of control system units and a driving system unit; in addition the control system units are arranged to be exchangeable. A user selects one of the control system units, which corresponds to an arrangement of an optical card to be used, and applies it to the apparatus, while the driving system unit select operational parameters of the optical card and an optical head which are suitable for driving the optical card to be used in response to a command from the selected control system unit, so that a plurality of optical cards each having a different arrangement can be applied for only one optical card apparatus.