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zilogmcz
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## 320kB 8" 77-track SSSD hard-sectored
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<!-- This file is automatically generated. Do not edit. -->
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The Zilog MCZ is an extremely early Z80 development system, produced by
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Zilog, which came out in 1976. It used twin 8-inch hard sectored floppy
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drives; here's one at the <a
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href="http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/12157/Zilog-Z-80-Microcomputer-System/">Centre
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for Computing History</a>:
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<div style="text-align: center">
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<a href="http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/12157/Zilog-Z-80-Microcomputer-System/">
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<img src="zilogmcz.jpg" style="max-width: 60%" alt="A Zilog MCZ at the Centre For Computing History"></a>
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</div>
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The MCZ ran Zilog's own operating system, Z80-RIO, and used 77 track
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single-sided disks, with 32 sectors (each marked by an index hole), with 132
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bytes per sector --- 128 bytes of user payload plus two two-byte metadata
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words used to construct linked lists of sectors for storing files. These
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stored 320kB each.
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FluxEngine has read support for these, including support for RIO's ZDOS file
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system.
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## Options
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(no options)
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## Examples
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To read:
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- `fluxengine read -c zilogmcz -s drive:0 -o zilogmcz.img`
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## References
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* [About the Zilog MCZ](http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/zilog.html),
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containing lots of useful links
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* [The hardware user's manual](https://amaus.org/static/S100/zilog/ZDS/Zilog%20ZDS%201-25%20Hardware%20Users%20Manual.pdf)
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