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		userbinator 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Booting from a vinyl record (2020) Are you referring to 2M/2MGUI? That didn't change the track spacing (which is fixed) but used bigger sector sizes (similar to how HDDs went from 512B to 4K physical sectors): https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27412/how... (Big fuckings to Wikipedia for erasing history, and kudos to archive.org for preserving it: https://web.archive.org/web/20241203124243/https://en.wikipe... )

hinkley 8 days ago [–]

No they definitely did more tracks, but it seems to be a smaller multiplier than I recalled.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12768/wha...

2-5% more tracks, 12.5% more sectors.

userbinator 8 days ago | [–]

The track spacing didn't change, but yes, many if not all floppy drives could step the head slightly past the officially supported number of tracks.

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