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by i_am_andy 4895 days ago
Surely not 3.5" floppies in 1998. 1998 was the year of 100MB zip disks, LS120 supper floppies. This was when everyone already had CD-roms in their PCs and some luck people had CD-writers.

I remember digital cameras of that era writing to mini-CDs. I dont recall ones writing to 3.5" floppies.

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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica)

> Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997), the first digital camera of the Mavica series.

> The later Digital Mavicas recorded onto 3.5" 1.4 MiB 2HD floppy disks in computer-readable DOS FAT12 format, a feature that made them very popular in the North American market.

[...]

> and a new CD Mavica series — which used 8 cm CD-R/CD-RW media — was released in 2000.