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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven L Peace, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
ComByte, Inc., Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 965 ; 360 9906 ; 360137 ; 369 751 ;
Abstract
A media lockout device and associated method for a combined media drive. The combined media drive permits the insertion of storage media into two separate insertion openings of the combined media drive to be received therein. The media lockout device permits reception within the media drive of storage media inserted through one of the insertion openings of the combined drive. Once a storage media is inserted through an insertion opening of the combined drive, the media lockout device prevents the insertion of another storage media through the other of the insertion openings while the first storage media is received within the combined drive.