Abstract: Read apparatus for optical discs has a turret magazine rotatable in a vertical plane, and a disc-drive arrangement surrounded by the turret magazine so that a disc received from the magazine is rotatable in a vertical plane which extends substantially parallel to the supporting plane of storage compartments situated underneath and above the plane of rotation. A feed-in device includes a loading funnel and an unloading funnel arranged respectively above and underneath a receiving compartment of the disc-drive arrangement, each storage compartment has an associated releasable holding device for the discs, and the receiving compartment of the disc-drive arrangement has an associated releasable holding device for a disc received from the magazine.

Abstract: The invention relates to a microprogrammed computer whose architecture is determined by a simple and rigid format of the controlling micro-instruction. Each micro-instruction controls a data transfer and has at least four parts each of which are within a single micro-instruction. A first part always specifies the data source and data sink between which the data transfer is to take place. In a second part, conditions are stated for transfer to, or writing into the data sink. In a third part, a specific counting register out of a number of counting registers is addressed and, furthermore, it is specified how the contents of the counting register must be modified parallel to the transfer. In a fourth part, further data is contained; the fourth part may be controlled as a data source, with data transfer from the source to an arbitrary data sink being possible. In the case of transfer to the operation register of the arithmetic unit, such data indicates the logic or arithmetic operation.