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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ · 5w
This is a broken Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD87. This has a rare 4X speed floppy drive, so I thought I'd open it up and see if I could remove it and use it elsewhere. (This is going to be a very abbrev...
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It does support Memory Stick so you can have up to 128mb of flash storage, but instead of including a memory stick slot like some later Mavicas, they instead added support for the FlashPath flash-to-floppy adapters, so you have to put your memory stick inside one of these adapters (which take batteries!)

This is Sony branded, but it's based on the same technology as the other FlashPath products, Sony just licensed it.

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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ · 5w
So the floppy module inside is a TEAC FD-02 H Part number 19308600-00. There aren't any pages online I can find with that model/part number except for people trying to find or sell replacement parts for this camera. https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/116/525/193/...
dan 💾 · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqrv4738d6q3nxf24v4gmg4u7lh3udmarsttfzp7q0xttdlqk5ls3ssayzy8 Now that looks particularly cursed... is it like one of those cd-to-cassette adapter thing for cars, except memorystick-to-floppy? Now I'm having terrible thoughts of what other terrible...