• gnu@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    My primary school bought one of these, I thought it was a pretty cool camera back then. It wasn’t the best image quality available even at the time and writing to the floppy was slow but being able to swap to other disks easily was a big thing (a stack of floppies was a lot cheaper than memory cards) and being able to just stick the floppy in any computer and see the images was a real game changer compared to dealing with camera drivers to download images.

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    15 hours ago

    I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed the sound of a 3.5" floppy being inserted into a drive. Takes me back to loading up Oregon Trail on our old Macintosh.

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    17 hours ago

    Those things still take pretty damn good shots, too. I’ve seen reviews where they compare with modern equipment, you can still easily tell the difference, but the quality is far from bad.