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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1994
Chi-Hung Dang, Tucson, AZ (US);
Chi-Thanh Dang, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A single accessing mechanism is deployed adjacently to two optical media libraries. Each library has a plurality of record medium storage compartments arranged respectively into a one-compartment wide column. Each library has its own media drive (player or recorder). An accessing module in the accessing mechanism is movable along the column lengths. The accessing module has two transfer compartments respectively for transferring record media in respective ones of said libraries between the respective storage compartments and the respective media drives. The compartments, either in the accessing module or the library, are vertically offset. A vertical space between vertically adjacent record media enables a fetching apparatus to simultaneously enter such space in both libraries. Moving the accessing module upward or downward respectively selects the record medium to be fetched--in only one of the two libraries.