Autochanger

Japanese: オートチェンジャー - おーとちぇんじゃー
Autochanger

...Although they have been used in the United States and other countries recently for personal computers, they have a smaller capacity and are slower than normal hard disks. Taking advantage of their interchangeability, ultra-large capacity storage devices (autochangers) have been made that can automatically change dozens or even thousands of CD-ROMs or DATs in a single device, like jukeboxes.
[Read-only memory]
Storage media include not only rewritable media, but also read-only media, which means that once stored content cannot be rewritten.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "autochanger" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…最近でもパソコン用にアメリカなどで使われてきたが,通常のハードディスクに比べると容量が少なく低速である。交換可能であることを活かして,1個の装置で数十~数千個のCD-ROMやDATなどを自動交換しながら使えるジュークボックスのような超大容量の記憶装置(オートチェンジャー)も作られている。
[リードオンリーメモリー]
 記憶媒体としては,書換え可能なものだけでなく,一度記憶した内容を書き換えることができない,読出し専用のものもある。…

※「オートチェンジャー」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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