My first digital camera and the one that woke my interest in photography, bought on a sale at Clasohlson 1999, a well known swedish supplier of technical toys and tools. It was a little outdated when I got it so it wasnt too expensive, only about 1300 kronor. That was rather cheap for a compact camera back then. If you where an amateur like me and wanted a digital camera a compact was your only choice. The digital SLR:s was way too expensive to even be considered at the time.
It uses regular AA batteries and takes decent pictures, probably because of its lens, a 38-114mm f2.8-f3.5 zoom. The only problem is its painfully slow autofocus. By the time the camera is focused, your target has disappeared long ago.
The memorycard used is a Smart Media The first one I got had room for four megabytes, yes four… Then I bought two cards that could store 16 MB each, at 640×480 resolution and jpg the total of 36 MB was more than enough to make it through a couple of weeks on holiday. If you used the full resolution, 1280×960 , and saved them as tif-images you had to be very selective when choosing what to shoot because then the memorycard filled upp quick.
Pictures of it:
Some links:
http://www.paulspages.co.uk/cv/s-dcams.htm
http://www.dpreview.com/products/agfa/compacts/agfa_1680