Dr David MillsNew #Camera!
It uses tiny-tiny #floppydisks
It's a Cannon RC260 from 1990/1991
I wonder if the disk works? I'll have a play later. #retro
Alfred Chow - Maker of Things@dtl
At college in 2004 we had a photography module.
We weren't allowed to download our own digital camera, or phone, photos to the college computers so had to take turn on the college camera.
It used a floppy disk!
[Click!]
Whurrrrrrrr.... whurrrr... clack clack clack.
Beep [saved].
It only took two images per disk.
I have no idea what we were supposed to learn from it.
@Maker_of_Things Patience?
@dtl
Also, downloading the camera to a Mac, transferring to a memory stick, and then uploading to a Windows PC before we could view the image.
So, yeah, maybe.
Steampunk_Prof
Kim@Maker_of_Things @dtl My school had one like that, back when it was still cool.
A couple of years later, I went to a university open day, where the E&EE department tried to impress us with a commercial digital camera, the only thing about which was vaguely impressive was that it used some sort of flash memory for storage.
(They had a research group with a van full of computers that could drive itself on an empty stretch of motorway. Which was proper Knight Rider science fiction type stuff at the time, but somehow failed to try to impress us with that. Weird. )
A couple of years later, I went to a university open day, where the E&EE department tried to impress us with a commercial digital camera, the only thing about which was vaguely impressive was that it used some sort of flash memory for storage.
(They had a research group with a van full of computers that could drive itself on an empty stretch of motorway. Which was proper Knight Rider science fiction type stuff at the time, but somehow failed to try to impress us with that. Weird. )