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Definition: jukebox
A storage device for multiple CD-ROMs, DVDs, tape cartridges or disk modules. Using carousels and robotic arms, a jukebox physically moves the storage medium from its assigned location to an optical or magnetic station for reading and writing. Access between modules can take several seconds. Jukeboxes were popular when CD-ROMs and removable cartridges were widely used prior to the Internet. See digital jukebox and vinyl record.
Tape Cartridge Jukebox
A Real Jukebox Was For Music
Overland Data's Data Vault integrated a robotic loading system with a stationary magazine that held 3480/3490 tape cartridges. (Image courtesy of Overland Data Inc.)
The jukebox name came from "juke joint," a social center primarily for African Americans in the southeastern U.S. starting in the 1920s. Giving rise to the Blues era, juke joints were venues to listen to music, dance, drink and gamble. This Wurlitzer jukebox from the 1930s played twelve 78 RPM single-song records by extracting the platter onto one turntable. See analog audio.