A HardDiscDrive Harddisk (HDD) solution for the CPC.The first for the CPC.Produced by the German company [[Vortex]]
Actually The Harddisk was build about 1986. It has the first for same cases like the CPCF1-S and the F1-D.
Produced by A big Power Supply which have about 1,5 Kilograms gives the German company [[Vortex]]power to the Harddrive. It was shipped with the power supply, the harddisk itself, a built in 5,25" DD Diskdrive with 720KB and a controller. The controller has two ports for two MFM Harddiscs (with 60MB capacity), two DD Floppys and a ROM board which give place for 2 Roms, which held the VDOS 2.0. The VDOS used is specially adapted to support the hard disk.
The Contoller get it's power from the Harddisc.
The Harddisc was build about 1986. It have the same cases like the F1-S and the F1-D. A big Power Supply which have about 1,5 Kilograms gives the power to the Harddrive. The Harddrive was shipped with the Powersupply The Harddrive itself, a built in 5,25" DD Diskdrive with 720KB and a Controller which was used for being the MFM Controller with two ports for two MFM Harddiscs, two DD Floppys and a ROM board which give place for 2 Roms, which held the VDOS 2.0The Contoller get the Power from the Harddisc.You can connect up to two 60MB MFM Drives which are supported by the VDOS 2.0.But the normal setup was with had a single 20 MB MFM Drive.
A Software Package consists of a few helpful tools:
*LowLevel Low level Format
*Partition tools
*Format partitions
*Patch for CPM 2.2 and 3.0 (Plus) to support the Drive
*File/Disccopy Tools
*DiskformatDisk format*HexeditorHex editor
*and a few more...