I've never understood why retro computer enthusiasts go through such effort to replace their floppy drives with CF cards, when Sony had a solution almost 25 years ago.

My DSC-30 came with a metal floppy disk that has no moving parts. But you could insert a Memory Stick into it, and then stick it in any 3.5" floppy drive and read the stick as FAT.

Every time I see someone on the VCF forums struggling with the latest floppy drive replacement board I wonder what ever happened to that technology.