Video Floppy Disk

The 2-inch video floppy disk was introduced by Sony in 1981 and used in still video cameras designed by Sony, Canon, Minolta, and Panasonic. These cameras were electronic, but not digital. Instead of storing digital photos, they captured single frames of analog video and stored them as tracks on the magnetic media inside a hard plastic disk enclosure. The images were viewed by connecting the camera with the video floppy disk to a television where the video frames were viewed one at a time or in a slideshow format. Adoption was not widespread and these are very rare.

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