"(Ted Harding)" wrote: > It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly > to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the > earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you <snip> > (The floppies used are in all cases -- as far as I know -- standard > DOS-formatted floppies straight out of the box).
FWIW I have grabbed pics from a Mavica floppy with a Linux system. I mounted the floppy as a regular DOS type floppy and just grabbed the .jpg's like any other. The Mavica also creates a second file for every pic it makes - I don't remember the extension but that file has no use I've been able to figure out (probably something the camera uses internally). And the floppy that I had fed into the Mavica was a brand new never-used one straight out of the box. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
