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	Add some F85 documentation.
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| | Format                                   | Read? | Write? | Notes | | ||||
| |:-----------------------------------------|:-----:|:------:|-------| | ||||
| | [AES Superplus / No Problem](doc/disk-aeslanier.md) |  🦖   | | hard sectors! | | ||||
| | [Durango F85](doc/disk-durangof85.md)    |  🦖   |        | 8-inch _and_ hard sectors | | ||||
| | [Victor 9000](doc/disk-victor9k.md)      |  🦖   |        | 8-inch        | | ||||
| | [Zilog MCZ](doc/disk-zilogmcz.md)        |  🦖   |        | 8-inch _and_ hard sectors | | ||||
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| Disk: Durango F85 | ||||
| ================= | ||||
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| The Durango F85 was an early office computer based around an 8085 processor, | ||||
| sold in 1977. It ran its own multitasking operating system call DX-85M, as | ||||
| well as CP/M. It had an interesting electric-typewriter form factor, with a | ||||
| little monitor sitting on the side of it --- in operation you were facing the | ||||
| 14" printer. | ||||
|  | ||||
| It was touted as being portable. Which it was, if you were strong; the story | ||||
| is that they had to do an extensive search to find someone capable of lifting | ||||
| it for the following photo... | ||||
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| <div style="text-align: center"> | ||||
| <img src="durangof85.jpg" style="max-width: 60%" alt="A Durango F85, held precariously"> | ||||
| </div> | ||||
|  | ||||
| ...and even then, only for a few seconds. | ||||
|  | ||||
| It used 5.25 soft-sectored disks storing an impressive-for-those-days | ||||
| 480kBish on a side, using a proprietary 4-in-5 GCR encoding. They used 77 | ||||
| tracks, 12 sectors and 512 bytes per sector. Later models used double-sided | ||||
| disks; I don't have access to an image of one so don't know how they work | ||||
| (there's a suspicious looking spare byte in the sector header which could | ||||
| store the side). As always, if you have one, please [get in | ||||
| touch](https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/issues/new). | ||||
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| Reading discs | ||||
| ------------- | ||||
|  | ||||
| Just do: | ||||
|  | ||||
| ``` | ||||
| .obj/fe-readf85 | ||||
| ``` | ||||
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| You should end up with an `f85.img` which is 472064 bytes long. | ||||
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| Useful references | ||||
| ----------------- | ||||
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| There's amazingly little information about these things. | ||||
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|   * [Chuck Guzis' F85 page](http://www.sydex.com/durango/durango.html) with lots of pictures | ||||
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