I put this circa-1991 item on eBay, it looks like
it's going to end at less than $10.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1345799733
I'm auctioning a batch of other computer-related items,
but this was the most classic or obscure.
- John
Canon FV-540 Still Video Floppy Disk Drive
This was used with the Canon RC-540 Still Video Camera,
an early digital camera dating back to
1991. It was part of Canon's Professional Still Video
Imaging Kit, a $4900 package.
It stored images to a 2" inch floppy disk, and you'd
move those floppies to this SCSI device to view
thumbnails and retrieve images using Canon's SV-Scan
software or other packages. Each could
store up to 50 images at low resolution (72 DPI) or
up to 32 images at high resolution (150 DPI).
I will include a Zip file (Wfvscan2.zip) containing
Windows FV-Scan software, which requires a Corel
or Trantor SCSI card interface. I haven't tested it.
I think there was Mac and even Next software
available for this unit. Perhaps you can find it
on the net.
The box has S-Video in, and composite in and out,
and two SCSI ports.
Received on Sun Apr 14 2002 - 07:35:50 BST