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I always wanted to know how far you could push the capacity of an old standard density floppy drive if one hacked on modern control electronics. Things like add
by MisterTea 8y ago
I always wanted to know how far you could push the capacity of an old standard density floppy drive if one hacked on modern control electronics. Things like adding more tracks and variable sectors per track. Though I think you'd be limited by the magnetic density of the media and physical head size. Still, it would be fun to see just how much more data you could squeeze onto an old 1.44MB floppy.
- timw4mail 8y agoThe issue then becomes how do you properly protect the magnetic medium inside.
- segfaultbuserr 8y agoThis is especially problematic for the last bunch of floppies produced in the late 90s. According to some anecdotes, due to the popularity of PCs at this time, vendors implemented various cost-saving measures to drive the price down, as a result, the magnetic medium inside had the lowest quality in the entire history of floppy disks and extremely unreliable... Meanwhile, many 5-1/4 inch disks from old mainframes are still working today.