Fairlight-CMI

Hi all,

It occurred to me that since using KMI's CMIOS9 utils we can make images of Series III SCSI hard drives onto the PC, we could possibly share these same drive images using bit torrent or someone's ftp site.  Similar in concept to downloading & sharing a Linux distro dvd image amongst friends.  This way we get drive backups and share voices/samples/sequences fairly easily.

I wonder how much compression can be applied to the CMIOS9 drive image file (e.g. using WinRAR or 7zip) and make them even more "sharing" friendly ?  Anyone done any experiments there to reduce size ?

By the way, there used to be a similar tool called CMI Explorer for windows that a guy Rob on this list was making some years back.  He sent me a beta copy and then I never heard anymore from him.  Did this ever take off ?

thanks

David