When the 3 1/4-in floppy camera came out I wanted one. It was not in my budget. But a decade and a half ago a friend gave me one. It worked. It came with two batteries and three floppies.
Yesterday a different friend gave me one as well. It came with one battery. That battery is the same as the other batteries.
I went from a person who couldn’t afford anything back in the day to a person who’s just being handed these priceless artifacts.
They both work. The only device I can read the disk on are the cameras themselves because I have no floppy drives.
Sony Mavica FD91 and FD81
I remember my 4th grade teacher having one of these and showing it off around 2000, it may have been the first digital camera I ever saw.
Blew my mind back then.
He was one of my favorite teachers, really into science, loved gadgets. He was an older guy who retired a few years later and I heard he wasn’t in the best of health, no idea if he’s still around, but I hope he at least lived long enough to appreciate how far digital cameras have come since then.
These came out in 98 And 99 so odds are they paid retail