The floppy disk orphaned by Linux

Re:The floppy disk orphaned by Linux by jdofaz on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:59PM (#20538282)

I saw quite a few 120MB Super Disk drives back in the day, I don’t know if I once saw a Super Disk. They were all used as 1.44MB floppy drives for the early iMacs.

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Re:The floppy disk orphaned by Linux by DrScump on Saturday July 27, 2019 @04:44AM (#20541078)

Superdiscs weren't difficult to get at all.

I had a Panasonic (?) digital camera that had a Superdisc drive inside. Pictures you took would be written to whatever disc you had inside (a regular 1.44mb would fill quickly). There was an adapter so you could use the camera itself as an external drive.

I still use some pictures from that camera in ebay listings, 15 years later.

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Re:The floppy disk orphaned by Linux by xellisx on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:13PM (#20539427)

Yeah I owned a drive, but never the lS120 disks. It read 1.44s faster though.

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