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1. Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 16:23:48 JST Nanoraptor

   About as 80s as a tech ad gets - from Omni Magazine, July 1989 for an early Sony Mavica.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 16:23:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @NanoRaptor I've got one of those! Like all video floppy cameras, it doesn't work

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 04:55:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • akiran_n
     • smiddi

     @akiran_n @smiddi @NanoRaptor fun fact: in this video LGR talks about how they're rare and expensive on ebay... That's because at the time I was buying them all

   • akiran_n (akiran_n@livellosegreto.it)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 04:55:23 JST akiran_n

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️
     • smiddi

     @smiddi @foone @NanoRaptor they don't use regular floppy. Is more like a camcoder that record still frame on a tape, but instead of a tape, they use a cousin of a floppy. https://youtu.be/4G_1uy_7B5w

   • smiddi (smiddi@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 04:55:25 JST smiddi

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone

     They tried to store video on floppies?

     @NanoRaptor

   • Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 04:56:57 JST Nanoraptor

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone Bugger - is it just one of those kinda unreliable technologies that never worked itself out?

     I'm lucky enough to have four quicktakes and a 2001 mavica - all working (though the images from the 100/150s are only a technical 'work')

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 04:56:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @NanoRaptor I think it's just that they all lose calibration over the years.
     They might be technically working, but they're producing an output so far from spec that no TV can display it