Disk: Zilog MCZ =============== The Zilog MCZ is an extremely early Z80 development system, produced by Zilog, which came out in 1976. It used twin 8-inch hard sectored floppy drives; here's one at the Centre for Computing History:
A Zilog MCZ at the Centre For Computing History
The MCZ ran Zilog's own operating system, Z80-RIO, and used 77 track single-sided disks, with 32 sectors (each marked by an index hole), with 132 bytes per sector --- 128 bytes of user payload plus two two-byte metadata words used to construct linked lists of sectors for storing files. These stored 320kB each. FluxEngine has experimental read support for these disks, based on a single Catweasel flux file I've been able to obtain, which only contained 70 tracks. I haven't been able to try this for real. If anyone has any of these disks, an 8-inch drive, a FluxEngine and the appropriate adapter, please [get in touch](https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/issues/new)... Reading discs ------------- Just do: ``` fluxengine read zilogmcz ``` You should end up with an `zilogmcz.img` which is 315392 bytes long. Useful references ----------------- * [About the Zilog MCZ](http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/zilog.html), containing lots of useful links * [The hardware user's manual](https://amaus.org/static/S100/zilog/ZDS/Zilog%20ZDS%201-25%20Hardware%20Users%20Manual.pdf)