READING DEVICE FOR INFORMATION DATA STORED ON A PLURALITY OF INFORMATION DISCS

A particularly simple design of this device with the capability of fast access to information data is obtained as follows, - a carousel magazine is rotatable in a vertical plane, - a disc driving device is surrounded by the carousel magazine in such a way that the disc taken over is rotatable in a vertical plane which is aligned essentially parallel to the depositing plane of a depositing compartment located underneath or above this rotating plane, - a feeding mechanism essentially comprises a drop-in funnel and a drop-out funnel, which are arranged respectively above and below a drop-in compartment of the disc drive device, - each depositing compartment is assigned a releasable holding device for the discs and - the drop-in compartment of the disc driving device is assigned a releasable holding device for a fed-in disc.