Obsolete SonyDec 19, 2024
Still looks like it's from the future.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Dec 19, 2024

@obsoletesony

Kinda sad we never got a true replacement for/upgrade to the floppy disk.

I mean, there were LOTS of them, but no one true replacement.

In the 2000s, I was hoping that manufacturers would come together and create a standard form factor of usb thumb drive, so we could have actual usb thumb drive drives on our machines to pop thumb drives into and out of, but that never happened.

Of course, SD Cards and SD Micro cards fit the bill very nicely, but they never became general-purpose data storage devices, except for embedded applications like raspberry Pis (and of course, cameras and such).

Show threadNot with Stupid; I AM Stupid.Dec 20, 2024
@rl_dane @obsoletesony One of the places I worked at used a Sony Mavica floppy disk camera for collecting pictorial evidence of damage caused to the comany's infrastructure by outside parties. This camera used a MMC card adaptor in the shape of of a floppy disk for recording more photos than would fit on a floppy. To import the photos the card was extracted and placed into a card reader. The MMC format was the same shape as the SD card but much thinner as it lacked the locking feature of the SD card.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 

@peemee @obsoletesony

Ah, I remember MMC cards! I don't recall if I ever used one myself, but they were popular in the earlyish "naughties."

And I do recall that funky mavica with the floppy->MMC adapter. ;)

Dec 20, 2024 at 3:43pmWeb
Show threadNot with Stupid; I AM Stupid.Dec 23, 2024
@rl_dane @obsoletesony At one stage they were clearing out the office and I wound up with that Mavica camera. It’s technically still workable but the backlighting for the digital viewfinder has failed. It was an interesting mix of technologh, limited recording to floppy disks but having 10x optical zoom.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Dec 23, 2024

@peemee @obsoletesony

I miss optical zoom. XD

Show threadNot with Stupid; I AM Stupid.Dec 23, 2024
@rl_dane @obsoletesony I also have an Olympus 4.0 MP digital camera from 2003 that features 4 x digital zoom, 10 x optical zoom and has a clever upscaling mode that allows it to capture 7MP images. Works fine to this day.