![]() ![]() My first flavour of digital photography was the Sony Mavica floppy-disk based camera from when I was in primary school in the late 1990s. It is perhaps their inability to compete in the digital space and their overemphasis on film which saw them go bankrupt. They provided quality recordable optical media in the early days of CD-R/RW drives and they also had a line of digital cameras including the DC series which were quite popular in the early days, right up to the EasyShare series which saw the end of the company as they were squeezed out by the competition. But that could not be further from the truth – Kodak was there with one of the earliest digital still cameras, and they were also very much working on digital formats such as the Photo CD. For many people looking back on the giant that once dominated photography, it seems the recollection is sometimes tainted with oversimplifications such as “Kodak didn’t see digital coming”. Perhaps what is more interesting is that phrases such as “Kodak moment” have also faded from our vernacular. Film processing has become hard to find as is quality film stock. Analog photography, on the other hand, has withered into a niche for the die-hards and curious. SuperDisk worldwide ceased manufacturing in 2003.Digital photography is so ubiquitous – literally almost everyone has a digital still and video camera in their pocket at almost all times in the form of their smartphone. It was more successful in Asia and Australia, where the second-generation SuperDisk LS-240 drive and disk was released. The SuperDisk had little success in North America with Compaq, Gateway and Dell being three of only a few OEMs who supported it. RED - The drive eject motor allows the disk to be under computer control so that it normally will not eject until the computer has completed its read or writing tasks. YELLOW - A secondary smaller coil primarily acts to keep the head mechanism aligned parallel with the disk surface. Two voice coil servomotors move the drive heads precisely across the disk surface.īLUE - The main servo with a large coil provides the primary force to move the head mechanism. This shows the technology of the SuperDisk drive. This particular drive cannot function using USB power alone. ![]() On the right is the USB-to-ATA adapter, which plugs into an intermediate fan-out and power supply daughterboard that is inside the rear of the Mac drive's casing. ![]() ![]() The drive itself is the same size as a standard 3.5" floppy drive, but uses an ATA interface. Imation SuperDisk drive An LS-120 disk Circuit components of the external USB SuperDisk for Macintosh. ![]()
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