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Vortex Disc Drives

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Image:F1DCONT.jpg|F1-D Interface Board (CPC 6128)
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=== A1-S Upgrade Kit ===
Vortex offered an upgrade kit consisting of a bare 5,25" drive (BASF 6138) and an installation manual, allowing to upgrade a single F1-S drive to a dual F1-D drive. To do this, one simply had to install the additional drive in the free slot of the drive case.
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=== FDA-1 3" Drive Adapter ===
Image:Vortex 3rd drive adapter insides closeup.jpg|Inside the adapter box (closeup)
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=== FDC I/O Ports ===
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== Z-Drives (180K/side) ==
These are less expensive drives and were meant to be directly connected as B drive to a CPC 464 with DDI-1 or a CPC 664/6128. Since these drives do not ship with an own controller or a VDOS ROM, they do rely fully on AMSDOS and thus only 40 tracks can be accessed. The Z-drives were basically S-drives without a Vortex controller and CP/M license.
 
=== Variants ===
* '''F1 - Z''' Single 5.25" drive with power supply with ribbon cable (does not come with interface containing FDC or [[VDOS]])
* '''M1 - Z''' Single 3.5" drive with power supply with ribbon cable (does not come with interface containing FDC or [[VDOS]])
 
=== A1-Z Upgrade Kit ===
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== X-Drives (720K) ==
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