Let Cowboy Neal do it.

As per the lack of NASA manned space funding...
from "The Right Stuff"
No Bucks, No Buck Rogers" or in this case "No Buck Rogers, No Bucks"

Back in the late 70's there was a new OS, CP/M 80 Version 2. Included in the BIOS support was a simple and very effctive sector blocking / Deblocking algorithm. The default support was 128 byte sectors on the common disk environment, 8 inch floppy disks. With the sector blocking and deblocking code, any size of physical sectors could be supported. On my Morrow Thinker Toy's double density controller, I was able to go from 256 byte sectors to 1024 byte sectors gaining a nice huck of space. In 1981 I worked for Micromation and had a chance to play with a 14 inch winchester hard drive, which had a huge 20 megabyte capacity. It had a "fixed" 512 byte sector size. After a little messing around with the drive, I found that the drive really could support larger physical sectors. I went from the 20 megabyte tot disk size to 1024 byte sectors and go another 6 megabytes for a total 26 MB out of a 20 MB drive just by enlarging the sector size.