Also, 1474560 / 1024 = 1440

If anyone could keep up with binary numbers back in the day, floppy disks were literally measured in binary megabytes.

Modified versions of various blank floppies
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These modifications reduce the number of
FAT tables from 2 to 1 and also reduce the
number of root entries down to 16 files,
which frees up some extra storage space.

The 1.72MB format can ONLY be used on Win9X
systems on real hardware, as not even WinNT
can access tracks 81 or 82 on floppy disks.
Disk image programs like WinImage can still
access files within 1.72MB floppy images.



1.44MB Standard:
80 Tracks		18 Sectors/Track
2880 Sectors Total	1474560 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 9
1457664 Bytes Data

1.44MB Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1470464 Bytes Data

Differences:
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12800 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries



1.68MB Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 10
1702400 Bytes Data

1.68MB Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

Differences:
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13824 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries



DMF 1024 Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 2	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 16	Sectors Per FAT: 5
1714176 Bytes Data

DMF 1024 Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

2048 Bytes More, 48 More Root Entries



DMF 2048 Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 16	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

DMF 2048 Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

Differences:
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0 Bytes More, 48 More Root Entries



1.72MB Standard:
82 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3444 Sectors Total	1763328 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 10
1745408 Bytes Data

1.72MB Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1759232 Bytes Data

Differences:
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13824 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries

If you’re interested in the blank disk images themselves, let me know.

The floppy disk format is based on the FAT12 file system.

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~johnsojr/2012-13/fall/cs370/resources/UnderstandingFAT12.pdf

And with enough creative tweaks to that file system, you can get DMF 1.68MB format, and if you think a bit outside the box and erase the redundant secondary FAT table and settle on a max of only 16 files on the disk, you can squeeze a few more kilobytes out of that even.

I actually made a number of custom modded blank disk images with more storage space, I might dig out the full specs of all the variants later.

About one floppy disk, with a little free space to spare.

I was 15, and had a dream of my girlfriend standing on the side of the street in daylight, and somehow her belly button somehow turned into something like a black hole, but still flesh colored, and she got sucked into oblivion.

Hey, dreams can definitely be weird like that. 🤷‍♂️

My butt itches

LOL, I’ve heard of that before.

I’ll pass though, I took some Alka Seltzer earlier and so far so good. 👍🤞

Yay, I think the hiccups have finally passed!

I think… 🤞

It’s very rare that this happens to me. I do think it’s associated with a mild chest cold I just went through over the past few days or so. The cold itself has basically already passed, but I think that’s what left me with lingering hiccups.

At least the hiccups aren’t severe, like I don’t think I’m gonna end up with a hernia or anything like that, but yeah it’s annoying as hell and making it rather difficult to sleep ☹️

I’m pretty sure it’ll pass within a day or so, hopefully 🤞

It’s been over 24 hours now, only with very brief breaks in the hiccups, but yeah I actually feel like I’m doomed for now ☹️

Tried that, didn’t work ☹️

My beliefs are too lazy to stand. They’re sitting and waiting for the world to fall apart.

This guy counts in tallywhackers!

What, you don’t know the powers of 2?

LOL, this is The Onion anyways, nothing to be taken too seriously here.

I can count from 0 to 255 on my fingers. I can even count up to 1023, if I include my thumbs.

Binary…

Interesting perspective.

You forgot step 8.5…

The greedy leader will impregnate as many fertile women as he can.

Genghis Khan

And don’t forget, Elmo wants to be the first man to send his sperm to Mars…

Valid Username 👍

😂🤣

Baking soda can totally be used as toothpaste.

I’m from USA, so I don’t know of Canadian alternatives, but it just works.

Yep, pretty much.

When I’m working on vehicles or bicycles, it’s almost always metric wrenches and sockets, until that one random bolt or nut that’s for whatever dumb reason in imperial, like the random 1/2", or the fairly universal 5/8" spark plug socket.

Why? Hell if I know, but some of those things probably track all the way back to Henry Ford, and possibly even before him.

I find the whole imperial/metric thing funny.

Like hell, even here in the USA, it’s always the 10 millimeter socket (or in my case the 15 millimeter socket) that somehow disappears.

A pendulum of one meter length swings at a rate of once per second.

Where things get weird in the USA is one mile = 5280 feet. Like, who the fuck pulled that number out of their ass?