This Floppy Disk uses Flash Memory! (Sony MSAC-FD2M)

MMMM sack! 😂

Cool! I heard of the Mavica floppy camera but this floppy-to-flash adapter was new to me.

Haha "hooked on phonics" had me thinking of House of Pain. Cool video, didn't know about this thing.

Moar of dis pls

"Mmmm-Sac-Fuh-Duh-To-Ummm". Finally! Someone who can properly pronounce model numbers!

Okay, so this won't work on older hardware even if it can read a 3.5" floppy.

I had (maybe still have) one of these. Were any official or unofficial drivers for newer Win/Mac/other released?

got me to LOL

They did make internal zip drives that fit in a floppy sized case slot I always wanted one as a kid but never got one before the format was gone.

Love the name.. UHMSAC FADOETOEHM

Same concept as a cassette to 8-Track adapter or aux/CD to cassette adapter. Would be surprised if there wasn't a file size limitation in line with the floppy drive's normal capacity. Considering LS-120 existed the capacity wasn't groundbreaking. The LS-240 actually exceeds the capacity while retaining the floppy disk format.I wonder if this converter would read/write faster in one of those drives since they were floppy compatible but had faster transfer speeds for their higher capacity media?
This media conversion was helpful for those who bought floppy-based devices wanting to avoid the format war and cost associated with flash memory but then wanted to keep using the camera after it was apparent that 1.44MB was not sufficient for the way digital photography changed photography from an occasional thing where you might spend weeks or months to fill up a 12-24 shot roll of film to where you would potentially take dozens of pictures at a single event. Thanks to the near zero cost and lack of the need to buy rolls of film and pay for development which often took 24 hours or more. The ability to instantly have photos rather than collecting up months of film rolls for a trip to have them developed fundamentally changed how we use cameras so it was understandable how the thought process that went into buying a first digital camera made Floppies look very attractive at the time and the hardware cost would have made a converter like this an attracttive way to save that investment once the realities of digital photography set in.

I love this from the data migration standpoint. Imagine using something like this to transfer important files to a newer computer/medium.

Can you possibly make an ISO file from this driver CD-ROM? Unfortunately I can't find mine anywhere anymore.

I recall these(and the similar FlashPath adapters, which were also made for non-Sony memory cards) to be less about replacing floppy disks with memory cards and more about providing a "convenient" card reader that didn't need to take over one of your RS-232 ports.

I was disappointed when I learned they required drivers, but it DID answer my question of "how the heck does this simulate a floppy disk?"(It doesn't. Sad face.)

how can I get one of these? they all seem really expensive. I love mavica's, but carrying a billion disks can be annoying sometimes