Oric Microdisc scpecifications


  MICRODISC TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Additional information available from the Projects Page Muso's project page
Right click this link and Save Target As... for
Oric Microdisc Manual

Formatted Capacity — 160K bytes per side (double density as standard) No. of Tracks-40 (80 available as option at a future date)
No. of Sectors-16
Bytes per Sector—256
Transfer Rate- 250K Bits/Sec

Supports up to 599 files per side, four drives single or double sided, 40 or 80 track. User definable configuration allows mixing of drive types including 5 1/4" (five and a quarter inch).
Extensive wild card facilities.
Copy allows merging of basic and machine code files.

Utilities
The utilities are as follows:
1. Backup Copy a whole disc
2. Copy Copy a file to another
3. Del Delete a file allowing wildcards
4. Dir Display directory listing
5. Drv Set the default drive number 6. Format Format and initialise a disc
7. Load Load a file (code data or basic)
8. Protect Change protect status of file
9. Recall Recall a basic array from a file
10. Ren Rename a file
11. Save Save a file (code, data/ or basic)
12. Store Store a basic array as a data file
13. Sys Change system configuration.

Please note: This is original spec. More is now available through the enhanced Sedoric.


More on the Atmos here

Go to Plotter tech page

Go to Atmos tech Page

What's an Oric Atmos ?

Information on the Oric ports

 

back to main page


© Copyright 2000 by S.D.Marshall email me