Abstract: A cassette loader for a DAT cassette drive includes a specially-constructed, multi-chamber magazine which rides in an elevator to bring selected ones of a plurality of cassettes in the magazine into operative alignment with the inlet of the DAT cassette drive. A push-pull mechanism is positioned at a distance from the DAT cassette drive inlet so that the magazine is transported between the mechanism and the inlet. The mechanism includes a motor-driven scissors mechanism whose output arm extends into a selected one of the plurality of chambers in the magazine, thereby pushing the cassette out of the chamber and into the DAT drive. A latching means, carried on, and extending beyond, the end of the scissors output arm, is inserted between the cassette and the floor of the chamber containing it, through a slot which runs front-to-back along the floor, and hooks into a recess which is characteristic of DAT cassettes.