Add a documentation page for the Eco1.

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| [Acorn DFS](doc/disk-acorndfs.md) | 🦄 | 🦖* | |
| [Ampro Little Board](doc/disk-ampro.md) | 🦖 | 🦖* | |
| [Apple II DOS 3.3](doc/disk-apple2.md) | 🦄 | | doesn't do logical sector remapping |
| [Amiga](doc/disk-amiga.md) | 🦄 | | |
| [Amiga](doc/disk-amiga.md) | 🦄 | 🦖 | |
| [Commodore 64 1541](doc/disk-c64.md) | 🦖 | | and probably the other GCR formats |
| [Brother 120kB](doc/disk-brother.md) | 🦄 | | |
| [Brother 120kB](doc/disk-brother.md) | 🦄 | 🦖 | |
| [Brother 240kB](doc/disk-brother.md) | 🦄 | 🦄 | |
| [Brother FB-100](doc/disk-fb100.md) | 🦖 | | Tandy Model 100, Husky Hunter, knitting machines |
| [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! |
| [Durango F85](doc/disk-durangof85.md) | 🦖 | | 5.25" |
| [DVK MX](doc/disk-mx.md) | 🦖 | | Soviet PDP-11 clone |
| [VDS Eco1](doc/disk-eco1.md) | 🦖 | | 8" mixed format |
| [Micropolis](doc/disk-micropolis.md) | 🦄 | | Micropolis 100tpi drives |
| [TI DS990 FD1000](doc/disk-tids990.md) | 🦄 | 🦄 | 8" |
| [Victor 9000](doc/disk-victor9k.md) | 🦖 | | 8" |

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Disk: VDS Eco1
==============
The Eco1 is a Italian CP/M machine produced in 1982. It used twin 8" drives,
each storing 1.2MB, which was quite impressive for a CP/M machine in those
days. Visually it is best described as 'very brown'.
<div style="text-align: center">
<a href="vds-eco1.jpg"> <img src="vds-eco1.jpg" alt="A contemporary advert for the Eco1"/></a>
</div>
Its format is standard IBM scheme, but with an interesting wrinkle: there are
_three_ different formatting zones on the disk:
- Track 0 side 0: 26 sectors, 128 bytes per sector (3296 bytes)
- Track 0 side 1: 26 sectors, 256 bytes per sector (6656 bytes)
- All others: 16 sectors, 512 bytes per sector (8192 bytes)
The standard `read ibm` command will autodetect and read these disks, but due
to the format confusing the size autodetection the images need postprocessing
to be useful, so there's a custom profile for the Eco1 which produces sensible
images.
Reading discs
-------------
Just do:
```
fluxengine read eco1 -o eco1.img
```
You should end up with an `eco1.img` of 1255168 bytes, containing all the
sectors concatenated one after the other in CHS order, with no padding.
References
----------
- [Apulio Retrocomputing's page on the Eco1](https://www.apuliaretrocomputing.it/wordpress/?p=8976)

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tracks: 77
sides: 2