On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 11:42 AM Carey Schug via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> IIRC, the trs-80 had two allocation units per track, 5 sectors each. One > option some add-on or alternative operating system offered was to make each > track 1 or 2 long records, increasing capacity by 25%? 50%? > > > was this done in any other operating systems/computers? > The model 1 was sold for a number of years as a cassette storage ayatem before people started getting disk drives for them. Tandy, when they started selling a disk drive was mist concerned with profit and reliability, compared with cassette. As disk drives and disk doublers brought a new life to the model 1 after 1980, all kinds of OS's popped up that har a denser allocation scheme than the original trs DOS. It was a unique case, not many other home PC model had so many OS's to choose from. Bill > >
