More weird floppy drive ideas

[Gyro Gearloose]

Hey check this out

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/SONY-MSAC-FD2M- ... %7Ciid%3A1

Isn't that peculiar? It's a floppy disk case that you can plug a Memory Stick (Sony's answer to SD cards) into and some coin cells. I guess it reads the files on the card and can pretend to be a floppy disc by generating the signals a drive's head can pick up and send to the floppy controller.

A special driver on the PC can read that back. I guess you don't need to move the head, just keep reading from the correct location on the fake floppy disc.

Very intriguing. I admire this kind of whackiness. I wonder if that could work on a 1581.

[eslapion]

I wonder if that could work on a 1581.

Don't think so. Apparently it only worked with a few special digital cameras made by Sony.

At some point somebody must've realized using a standard HD floppy for photo storing is rather limiting.

[Gyro Gearloose]

I just checked and there's a video just released about it.



Synchronicity!

But this adapter is also used to get pictures OUT of a camera into PCs. It's that functionality I was thinking about. Probably the coil is designed for a HD floppy head only.