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Durango F-85
The Durango F-85 was an early personal computer introduced in September 1978 by Durango Systems Corporation, a company started in 1977 by George E. Comstock, John M. Scandalios and Charles L. Waggoner, all formerly of Diablo Systems. The F-85 could run its own multitasking operating system called DX-85M, which included an integral Indexed Sequential (ISAM) file system and per-task file locking, or alternatively CP/M-80. DX-85M utilized a text configuration file named CONFIG.SYS five years before this filename was used for a similar purpose under MS-DOS 2.0, MS-DOS/PC DOS 2.0 in 1983. The F-85 used single-sided 5ΒΌ-inch 100 tpi diskette drives providing 480 KB utilizing a high-density 4/5 group coded encoding. The machine was using a Western Digital Western Digital FD1781, FD1781 floppy-disk controller with 77-track Micropolis (company), Micropolis drives. In later models this was expanded to a double-sided option for 960 KB (946/947 KB formatted) per disket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |