On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:10:48 +0100 Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > Tom used to get 1.7MB on a 1.44MB > floppy,
If you mean Tom's rootboot, tomsrtbt: he got some of that "compression" by adding extra tracks beyond the 1.44MB. It is also possible to add an extra sector per track. (But not all floppy drives supported those extra tracks and sectors gracefully or at all.) That got 1.7 MB out of a 1.44MB diskette. I don't know if he did compression on top of that. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
