Masking tape makes great diskette

Masking tape makes great diskette labels. Empty Pepsi bottles make great play grenades. A 5 1/4 floppy disk drive has not only one, but 2 motors! Some of the many things I learned today. Way too many people in here are playing Starseige Tribes.

“To arrange data in a noncontinuous way to increase performance. When used to describe disk drives, it refers to the way sectors on a disk are organized. In one-to-one interleaving, the sectors are placed sequentially around each track. In two-to-one interleaving, sectors are staggered so that consecutively numbered sectors are separated by an intervening sector.”

Undersand that? No? It’s ok.

PrimaryVisualCortexStimulationOfTheDay

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I want one of those.