VDOS

The disc operating system VDOS was developped by the german company Vortex.

It was provided for use with the Vortex Disc Drives from Vortex (F1-D, F1-S, F1-X, M1-D, M1-S or M1-X).

VDOS was supplied on an EPROM, and was released in 3 versions:

• VDOS 1.0
• VDOS 2.0
• VDOS 2.11

Further there were German and English versions of this ROMs.

The VDOS ROM also contained a machine language monitor.

VDOS supported as first DOS the Vortex format, which become a standard format later on.

Manual

• Vortex Vdos 2.0 Manual (pdf) (also describes how to upgrade from VDOS 1.0 to 2.0)

Media

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  Boot-up VDOS message
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  VDOS external look
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  Internals photo

Download

• V-DOS 1.0 ROM

• V-DOS 2.0 ROM

• A statement from the german company Vortex Computersysteme GmbH, VDOS is Public Domain

Manual (German)

• VDOS 2.0 Manual (German)
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