Post #2642584
2026-05-07 09:23 UTC
@hadley@plush.city MS claims here that it was an error
https://web.archive.org/web/20150408044921/http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/121839
"The misunderstanding comes from the incorrect calculation below:
"1440 KB / 1000 = 1.44 MB
"The calculation should be:
"1440 KB / 1024 = 1.40 MB"
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@hadley@plush.city 2026-05-07 10:32
@electrocutie@plush.city Huh, while it's pretty reasonable to assume all floppies are gonna be formatted FAT, that still isn't the case. Like, I remember messing around with a floppy-based Linux distro that formatted the floppy to ext2. (It also required superformatting the disk to 1.8MB instead) Some weirdos might've also been writing raw files straight to the disk to squeeze out those extra 16,896 bytes. (I might've even done that at some point, though I can't imagine why other than "because I can")