Sony Mavica (Page 2): I do. I'm not sure we have it anymore, but I do remember them. Star Wars was the first disc we bought with it, too.

Ghery Loc: Olympia, WA

bikinkawboy wrote:

Anyone remember the short lived RCA video disk player? With the movie recorded on what was basically a 12-14” hard shell floppy disk? And when I bought my first RCA vhs player, a blank tape cassette was $18!

I do. I'm not sure we have it anymore, but I do remember them. Star Wars was the first disc we bought with it, too.

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

rck281 wrote:

Floppy disks were 8" when introduced.

They were!

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

bikinkawboy wrote:

I was doing some cleaning and came across the old Sony Mavica digital camera I used at work. A whopping 1.3 mp sensor that recorded onto a 3.5” floppy disk. A disk would hold 6 photos. I think we paid something like $700-$800 for that jewel. Actually the images weren’t as bad as you would expect by today’s standards. Also, I’m old enough to remember when floppy disks were actually floppy and 5-1/4”.

I have one sitting on the shelf behind me, a MVC-CD400. It was a great camera with a nice Carl Zeiss lens. I still use it on occasion just for the heck of it!

bwa

blumoon722

I have one listed for sale now on Ebay $25.00
With: Sony NP-FM50 battery, Sony AC Adapter AC-L10B with DC connecting cable, Mavica Case, USB cable, CD, Sony lens cap

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Longshadow wrote:

Yup, used them on a DEC PDP-11, along with RK-05 disk packs.

Many moons ago (1977) while working at DEC in NJ I set up an ATSC (Automated Traffic Surveillance Control) system on the NJ Turnpike using PDP-8’s. The system identified traffic problems and rotated signs between the inner and outer lanes on the turnpike near Newark airport to ease the flow of traffic. The state highway patrol on the turnpike (unknowingly to me) used the system to identify speed traps, so if you ever got a speeding ticket on the turnpike you can blame me.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Fredrick wrote:

Many moons ago (1977) while working at DEC in NJ I... (show quote)

Nope.

jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon

I also owned a Mavica and used it for work.

Jack

DBQ49er Loc: Dubuque, IA

bwana wrote:

I have one sitting on the shelf behind me, a MVC-CD400. It was a great camera with a nice Carl Zeiss lens. I still use it on occasion just for the heck of it!

bwa

Mine is in a cardboard box. It has ONE original battery, the second battery will not take a charge. I tried to purchase replacement batteries but the camera will NOT recognize them. I tried to send them back but the seller just gave me my money back with No return required. They camera still takes pictures and I still have some disks.
Larry

Ed48 Loc: Superior, Wisconsin

blumoon722 wrote:

I have one listed for sale now on Ebay $25.00
With: Sony NP-FM50 battery, Sony AC Adapter AC-L10B with DC connecting cable, Mavica Case, USB cable, CD, Sony lens cap

If you would list this for sale on UHH, I will gladly purchase it. I refuse to do business on ebay or Pay-Pal.
Ed48 in Superior, WI

cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX

bikinkawboy wrote:

I was doing some cleaning and came across the old Sony Mavica digital camera I used at work. A whopping 1.3 mp sensor that recorded onto a 3.5” floppy disk. A disk would hold 6 photos. I think we paid something like $700-$800 for that jewel. Actually the images weren’t as bad as you would expect by today’s standards. Also, I’m old enough to remember when floppy disks were actually floppy and 5-1/4”.

Or larger. Some of the IBM and other mainframes would accept 12" - 18" floppies. Which were.

blumoon722

Hi Ed,
I just listed it here on UHH
I accept Zelle or Paypal...same address for either one: (blumoon722@comcast.net)
Let me know your address
Best
John

delder Loc: Maryland

I had the RCA "CD" 12" Video Disk Player. The "CD" was Capacity Discharge. The disk was a large phonograph using a CD technology to read the groves...

Just Shoot Me Loc: Ithaca, NY

Oh common guys, surely somebody remembers programing a Texas Instrument's computer with a B&W 12" TV as a monitor with a cassette tape as a hard drive? Anybody?

BebuLamar

Just Shoot Me wrote:

Oh common guys, surely somebody remembers programing a Texas Instrument's computer with a B&W 12" TV as a monitor with a cassette tape as a hard drive? Anybody?

I remember differently. I had a TI-99 and a color TV and a cassette tape recorder. The TI-99 has color not just B&W.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

bikinkawboy wrote:

I was doing some cleaning and came across the old Sony Mavica digital camera I used at work. A whopping 1.3 mp sensor that recorded onto a 3.5” floppy disk. A disk would hold 6 photos. I think we paid something like $700-$800 for that jewel. Actually the images weren’t as bad as you would expect by today’s standards. Also, I’m old enough to remember when floppy disks were actually floppy and 5-1/4”.

The first floppy disks were 8" and held 80 KB and it was read-only IBM brought them to market in 1971. They cost $4.50 at Radio Shack

IBM was the first to make hard drives. They used to be called Winchester disks, and held 30 mb of fixed storage and 30 mb of removable storage. And yes, it was named after the rifle the Winchester Lever Action .30/30. Before that in 1953 they invented a storage computer the RAMAC, which was 5 mb and took up an entire room for the supporting electronics. That was 2 years after I was born.

I guess that that makes you not quite as old as me . . .