One day we will all have USB ports

[toprob]

Good grief, talk about nostalgia. Here's a link I forgot about, via the Wayback Machine. When I was at the copy centre, I ran a 'personal' website (the free site supplied by IHUG) dedicated to digital imaging etc, mainly to help our customers sort through the process of digital printing etc.
This particular post is from 2000. That was so long ago in web time, and most of the things I mention I hardly remember. Though I pretty much sum up the entire internet here, and my attitude to it hasn't really changed much -- some good, a lot of bad...
At the time I was salivating about USB ports, JPG2000, and internet banking.
So, tell me about your week, Rob.

[ZK-LGD]

That was priceless, but ... wot's a "floppy disk"?

(Duckin' for cover).

[Splitpin]

nice take on what i think everyday .... just when I think I have a grasp of something ... bang
I am looking for a drive that will read the old 3.5 things ..... ages ago my partner kindly transferred heaps of our old photos onto those things .
I got a reader via amazon .... it worked for three discs and then refused to do anything else.
Asked a guy at Harvey Norman if they had or knew of anything .... he had no idea what I was on about

[emfrat]

Marty - I have several 3.5 drives in retired machines. PM me an address and I'll post them. Can't help with 5¼ drives, but I still have plenty disks.

ATB
Mike

[dbcunnz]

Marty I have a couple of old 3.5 inch floppy drives sitting in a draw and also got a floppy to USB converter here somewhere will see if I can find it and send them down to you save Mike sending one over from Aus.

I will send you a PM when I find the adapter.

[Fozzer]

My latest Desktop/Tower Gaming Computer, 2 years ago, was the first computer (system) I have had/built since 1980 (Sinclair Spectrum 48k, Commodore C64, Amstrad 464, Amiga 1200, Microsoft Windows, that did not have a floppy disc drive, either separate or built-in!
I have a room full of 3.5-inch floppy disks, both empty, and full of various data!

I suppose USB Thumb Drive/Memory stick/Flash Drive have taken their place now.

I have a couple of bare 3.5-Inch drives, and a special adaptor to connect various Drive types to my computer via USB, but its a bit of a rigmarole to set it all up.

The Floppy Drive were useful at the time, (and a bit unreliable!), but a bit old-hat now!

My data storage is mostly in my head now...and that's more unreliable than my floppy disc drives!

Paul....with lots of other Floppy Parts.... ....!

[Splitpin]

I didn't mean to Hijack Robs post .... but Mike and Doug .... thank you both very much ...I will be in touch.
Merry Christmas gents .... Im off to stuff a chicken now ... cant be that hard , I might even cook it

[emfrat]

Speaking of USB Port :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8HKc4JlSc

There are English versions, but I like the French one best. Advert-speak is so international that no translation is needed

[Fozzer]

.....one day I will be 21 again?.... ...!

Paul.... ... ...!

[toprob]

Back in those days, while we were waiting for USB to take the world by storm, getting pics from the digital camera to the PC was a real ordeal. For one thing, a set of fully charged batteries wouldn't sustain the download of more than a few photos. The 'fix' for this was a floppy adapter, which you stuck the memory card into, and the PC saw it as a normal floppy disc. Amazing tech!
One thing which amazes me is that I was talking about buying a 8MB memory card for my camera, at $69. These days my 'goto' memory card is 4,000 times that size, and half the price... You've need four 8MB cards to hold a single raw image from my current camera.
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Back then I imported a camera, as you couldn't buy them here. It cost me $2500, and from memory it was 1 megapixel. The idea was to use it at work, for things like catalogue shots for the local businesses. One major issue was the inability to add an external flash, hence I created the brand 'Windowlight' as a joke, really, turning a negative into a positive feature. When I started my website (not related to photography at all) I registered Windowlight, which became the name of my fictitious business. Now I'm Godzone, but the website is still Windowlight, and always will be.