[Coco] Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/21/04 2:06:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Torsten at Dittel.info writes:

> Wasn't "Graphicom" using a strange diskette format using 1024 Byte
>  sectors (which allows more to write on the disk because there's less
>  sync overhead)?

Yes, and this also let Graphicom read or save a whole image in one disk 
operation, quite a bit faster.  That was one amazing program for the Coco 1 and 2 
-- sort of an integrated desktop app.  

ISTR its author documented the oddball disk format, gave the reasons for it, 
and so it wasn't a proprietary or anti-piracty thing.  The program itself, 
IIRC, was not copy protected.  --Mike K.