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Comment by wolpoli

> Fun fact! floppy disks actually contain a lot more surface area than 1.44mb. By my calculation, you'll get closer to 1.70mb but a lot of that extra space is earmarked for synchronization barriers and sector / track metadata.

This explains the 2M utility that allowed storing about 1.8mb on a floppy disk. It was fun playing with it.

parent wolpoli 2 years ago

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