The Japanese Advanced Systems Corp has developed and will begin marketing an optical disk jukebox that can handle as many as 152 optical disks: called the OPAC11-51C, it is designed for connection to DEC MicroVAX, can carry as much as 90Gb on 5.25 disks and the 152-disk version sells for about $127,000; a smaller version handling 56 disks for 34Gb is $106,000 and the first year target is 30.
JAPANESE ADVANCED SYSTEMS DEVELOPS OPTICAL DISK JUKEBOX
