Properly "classic" digital cameras (and imaging)

If you fudge "digital" camera to "electronic", my first goes back a bit further, to '91 or so. Canon offered something call the "Xapshot". It was a still video camera that stored the -analog- signal of a single video frame on a track of a small 1.5" microfloppy drive. It held 50 frames on one of those little floppies, though the picture quality degraded a bit on the inner tracks because the disk spun at a constant speed. You "uploaded" the photos by digitizing the image with a video card like the RasterOps 364. The little floppies gave the Xapshot one huge advantage over the actual digital cameras of the day - you could travel with it! The other "consumer" cameras of the era didn't have removable storage, and had to be emptied out at a computer after just a dozen pictures or so. The Xapshot did take color photos, but the quality was pretty grim, about 320x240 resolution accompanied by various analog video artifacts. It was a fun toy for the time, but I regret taking it on a European vacation in '92...all I have to show for the trip now is tiny, murky stills. A $50 35mm point 'n shoot would've done a much better job. Sony sold a similar still-video camera line called the "Mavica" (MAgnetic VIdeo CAmera). The Mavica line later morphed from still-video to true digital, storing the photos on 3.5" floppies. I no longer have the Xapshot...I sold it to a collector in the late '90s. Cheers, jp