Patent ID: 8157088

Claim:
A media storage apparatus, comprising: a frame; a shaft; a plurality of retainers for retaining a plurality of portable planar storage media, wherein each of the plurality of retainers is supported by the shaft and is individually rotatable orthogonally to the shaft between a raised selectable position and a lowered selected position, wherein the plurality of retainers are aligned along the frame to form a stack on a first side of the frame; a lift mechanism that lifts all of the plurality of retainers in the lowered selected position to the raised selectable position; and a retainer selection mechanism, coupled to the frame, that traverses the frame past multiple ones of the plurality of retainers to cause selected ones of the plurality of retainers traversed by the retainer selection mechanism to rotate orthogonally to the shaft from the raised selectable position to the lowered selected position, wherein the frame has a slot formed there through that spans said stack, and wherein the retainer selection mechanism includes a selector that has a manually manipulable element slidable along a second side of said frame and that extends into said slot to contact the selected ones of the plurality of retainers.