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Add a documentation page for the Eco1.
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| [Acorn DFS](doc/disk-acorndfs.md) | 🦄 | 🦖* | |
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| [Ampro Little Board](doc/disk-ampro.md) | 🦖 | 🦖* | |
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| [Apple II DOS 3.3](doc/disk-apple2.md) | 🦄 | | doesn't do logical sector remapping |
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| [Amiga](doc/disk-amiga.md) | 🦄 | | |
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| [Amiga](doc/disk-amiga.md) | 🦄 | 🦖 | |
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| [Commodore 64 1541](doc/disk-c64.md) | 🦖 | | and probably the other GCR formats |
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| [Brother 120kB](doc/disk-brother.md) | 🦄 | | |
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| [Brother 120kB](doc/disk-brother.md) | 🦄 | 🦖 | |
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| [Brother 240kB](doc/disk-brother.md) | 🦄 | 🦄 | |
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| [Brother FB-100](doc/disk-fb100.md) | 🦖 | | Tandy Model 100, Husky Hunter, knitting machines |
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| [Macintosh 800kB](doc/disk-macintosh.md) | 🦄 | 🦄 | and probably the 400kB too |
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| [AES Superplus / No Problem](doc/disk-aeslanier.md) | 🦖 | | hard sectors! |
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| [Durango F85](doc/disk-durangof85.md) | 🦖 | | 5.25" |
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| [DVK MX](doc/disk-mx.md) | 🦖 | | Soviet PDP-11 clone |
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| [VDS Eco1](doc/disk-eco1.md) | 🦖 | | 8" mixed format |
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| [Micropolis](doc/disk-micropolis.md) | 🦄 | | Micropolis 100tpi drives |
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| [TI DS990 FD1000](doc/disk-tids990.md) | 🦄 | 🦄 | 8" |
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| [Victor 9000](doc/disk-victor9k.md) | 🦖 | | 8" |
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Disk: VDS Eco1
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==============
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The Eco1 is a Italian CP/M machine produced in 1982. It used twin 8" drives,
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each storing 1.2MB, which was quite impressive for a CP/M machine in those
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days. Visually it is best described as 'very brown'.
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<div style="text-align: center">
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<a href="vds-eco1.jpg"> <img src="vds-eco1.jpg" alt="A contemporary advert for the Eco1"/></a>
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</div>
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Its format is standard IBM scheme, but with an interesting wrinkle: there are
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_three_ different formatting zones on the disk:
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- Track 0 side 0: 26 sectors, 128 bytes per sector (3296 bytes)
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- Track 0 side 1: 26 sectors, 256 bytes per sector (6656 bytes)
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- All others: 16 sectors, 512 bytes per sector (8192 bytes)
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The standard `read ibm` command will autodetect and read these disks, but due
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to the format confusing the size autodetection the images need postprocessing
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to be useful, so there's a custom profile for the Eco1 which produces sensible
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images.
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Reading discs
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-------------
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Just do:
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```
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fluxengine read eco1 -o eco1.img
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```
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You should end up with an `eco1.img` of 1255168 bytes, containing all the
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sectors concatenated one after the other in CHS order, with no padding.
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References
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----------
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- [Apulio Retrocomputing's page on the Eco1](https://www.apuliaretrocomputing.it/wordpress/?p=8976)
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output {
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image {
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filename: "ibm.img"
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filename: "eco1.img"
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img {
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tracks: 77
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sides: 2
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