H89 CP/M hard-secored boot diskette

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Apr 2 23:00:01 2003

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> As I mentioned earlier, I have a Forth that runs standalone
> on hard sectored. Since it is standalone, I've used it to
> make exact copies of other disk. I've done things like changing
> the interleaving to make about a 10X improvement in load
> speeds for many programs.

I always wondered, if it was so easy to change the sector interleave on
disks to make them load faster, why didn't the original
programmers/designers optimize the interleave in the first place?

Things that make you go, "hmm".

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