We pride ourselves on being able to transfer just about anything: 8 tracks, DATs, MiniDisc, 5.25 floppies, zip discs, laser discs, umatic tapes, PAL 8mm tapes, MicroMV tapes, you get the idea. But once in a while customers show up with formats that even we haven’t encountered, like the person who called today with the 2″ floppy disc.
Sure, we can handle the 3.5″ and 5.25″ discs, but 2″ floppy disc? My first thought was a confused customer who didn’t know what he had (a more likely scenario in our experience), but sure enough his 2″ video floppy disc really did exist, straight from his Sony Mavica still video camera.
Needless to say the video floppy disc never quite took off. You can see one and read about them here. In ten years in business, this is the first one we’ve encountered, but if you have a bunch of them, let us know, and maybe we’ll become the leading (and only?) video floppy transfer company in the U.S.