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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] 8" Drive on Series III

2004-04-17 by feldmann@xs4all.nl

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:52:41 +0200 (CEST), feldmann@xs4all.nl wrote: I must correct myself (again) on a statement. The tapes in the CMI 3 are DC600A or QC6250. I do not have DC6000 tapes, although they *might* be useable. Therefore I can state that you should look for the DC600A

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Re: Service Manual with extra updates

2004-04-16 by David J. Wilson

external SCSI drive bays with power supply and the old Centronics SCSI connectors on the back are very cheap to pick up on Ebay or many computer surplus parts web sites. I think I paid $20 for one. a few weeks ago. so if you still have your CMI's internal tape drive laying around

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Service Manual with extra updates

2004-04-16 by Colin Ross

Hi Jean Bernard I have a proper full Sevice Manual for the Series III I will trade if you have an external SCSI Tape Drive for the III. I have 200 tapes full off sounds from all top artists / producers of the day. they have RS etc but need an external drive to get to them. I will

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Tapes

2004-04-16 by Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.)

Hi Jean-Bernard, Unfortunately, I don't have a service manual for my v9.34 machine. I have operating manuals (Big one, CAPS, Command Summary, etc). If I can locate one, I will certainly pass it onto you though. Kind regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Bernard EMO

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Tapes

2004-04-16 by Jean-Bernard EMOND

Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.) wrote: > Has anyone, preferably based in the UK, got any tapes > I can have/buy for my Series III. Basically, I want > to keep this device in use so it doesn't seize up... > > Cheers, > Peter Hello Peter, I do have a few tapes for the CMI... I ca

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Tapes

2004-04-16 by Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.)

Has anyone, preferably based in the UK, got any tapes I can have/buy for my Series III. Basically, I want to keep this device in use so it doesn't seize up... Cheers, Peter

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] 8" Drive on Series III

2004-04-15 by feldmann@xs4all.nl

Hi peter, > http://members.aon.at/virtual-music/zonen_e/e_products_fair.htm and > they're 19 Euros per box. For 2 boxes, I think shipping was about 15 Euros > to the UK. Thanks for that ! > I don't have any tapes, unfortunately. If you or anyone else can locate > new tapes then t

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] 8" Drive on Series III

2004-04-15 by Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.)

Hi Harald, I bought them from: http://members.aon.at/virtual-music/zonen_e/e_products_fair.htm and they're 19 Euros per box. For 2 boxes, I think shipping was about 15 Euros to the UK. I don't have any tapes, unfortunately. If you or anyone else can locate new tapes then that wou

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] 8" Drive on Series III

2004-04-15 by feldmann@xs4all.nl

> Two boxes of discs arrived the other day Hi Peter, Where did you buy them and what did they cost ? > Just need to check my Tape Streamer now, Do you have new tapes as well ? Where/how much ? Regards, Harald.

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8" Drive on Series III

2004-04-15 by Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.)

Hi, Two boxes of discs arrived the other day and I finally got to try them out on my Series III, basically to see if my drive was still intact. There were a few problems initially (Disk Seek Error (Error #247), but soon worked perfectly. Probably just needed a bit of use to get i

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Series IIx vs Series III

2004-04-14 by Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.)

I paid a lot less for my series III. The price of the IIx does seem to be rapidly climbing though. P -----Original Message----- From: feldmann@xs4all.nl [mailto:feldmann@xs4all.nl] Sent: 14 April 2004 10:36 To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Series

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Series IIx vs Series III

2004-04-14 by feldmann@xs4all.nl

Hello All, Would you say that 6k was a good price for a series IIx ? It was too much for me. Also, the price for the unit is significantly less than the 6k advertized, the rest is labour, shipping and packing. What about the way it was packed, would that have been sufficient for

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Series IIx vs Series III

2004-04-14 by Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.)

Very OTT, but none the less I don't doubt this guy is an electronic genius and reputable seller :-) I will have a IIx at some point, running alongside my III, but after reading what he says and if he's not exaggerating the truth, I will probably own one sooner rather than later.

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Series IIx vs Series III

2004-04-14 by Hermann Seib

Hi Philip, a little off-topic here, but I think I should clarify my point of view... > Strange - I bought a fully restored Series IIx from John Hill > @ Synhouse (as well as many spares and accessories) You're in his references in the eBay offer, BTW. I hope he asked for permissi

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Re: Fairlight owners' day where ?

2004-04-13 by pmjtaysom

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "trilliann42" wrote: > And a Synclavier too would be awesome!! Still planning on bringing it - PSMT with 64 polysampling panning voices, 32 FM voices and 64mb memory with Rev. 2 VPK and a G4/500 running Synclavier's 5.2 OS :-) If anyone's int

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Re: Series IIx vs Series III

2004-04-13 by pmjtaysom

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Hermann Seib" > This seller is "synhouse"... and if you've ever made a trip to > www.synhouse.com, you'll easily recognize this slightly > over-exaggerated, marketing-oriented style :-) Strange - I bought a fully restored Series IIx from Joh

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Series IIx vs Series III

2004-04-13 by Hermann Seib

This seller is "synhouse"... and if you've ever made a trip to www.synhouse.com, you'll easily recognize this slightly over-exaggerated, marketing-oriented style :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.) > [mailto:PeterC@Core-Design.com] > Sent: T

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Series IIx vs Series III

2004-04-13 by Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.)

Ok, I'm slightly confused: Reading the item description on eBay for this IIx that's for sale (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3716792436&category=38071&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1), it gives me the impression the IIx is VERY different to the III. I alwa

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Fairlight in FRANCE 4/4

2004-04-12 by Pascal Nicot

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Fairlight in FRANCE 3/4

2004-04-12 by Pascal Nicot

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Fairlight in FRANCE 2/4

2004-04-12 by Pascal Nicot

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Fairlight in FRANCE 1/4

2004-04-12 by Pascal Nicot

After enthusiasm about my last send on Yahoo, here a new series for our greater pleasure. Pascal Nicot The translation above is generated automatically by SYSTRAN.

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Re: Fairlight owners' day where ?

2004-04-11 by trilliann42

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, feldmann@x wrote: > > guess I've now finally got A DATE FOR YOU ALL. It's May 22 2004. We > > need 30 people or more to pay for the venue and make the whole day > > work. Please let me know what you all think. Price to follow on > > confirmed

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fairlight IIx keyboard

2004-04-06 by Kevin Kelley

I was wodering if there is a replacement for the fairlight IIx type writter keyboard. Mine has a few bad keys and I need to replace them. Kevin Kelley

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Re: Did I kill my floppy?

2004-04-01 by edamjr

> 2. The disk heads are dirty. > > - Use a cleaning disk or open the system and inspect the disk heads > manually to find out whether any dirt (mainly dust and/or oxide) is > present on the head. Clean using pure alcohol on a cotton swab. Bingo. I used a cleaning disk with alcoho

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Re: Did I kill my floppy?

2004-04-01 by David J. Wilson

sounds like it's time for the old floppy drives to visit M. Farris (the drive doctors) in California http://www.mfarris.com these guys can fix & provide parts for any drives of any type. regards, David --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, feldmann@x wrote: > 1. Can you hear the

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Did I kill my floppy?

2004-04-01 by feldmann@xs4all.nl

1. Can you hear the disk spinning ? - diagnostic: the mechanics of the drive can not properly transfer enough 'spin' to the disk to keep it spinning. This is a common problem with record players, old diskette drives, laser printers and tape units of all sorts. They use rubber whi

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Did I kill my floppy?

2004-03-31 by edamjr

I've always used the left-hand drive as Drive 1 on my Series I. Only ever used it to load a test 'beep' sound, and a tiny page R sequence, from the diagnostics disk - because I had no sound library. (well a Series I doesn't have much *practical* use any more!) Never had any probl

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MFX 3+ For Sale on eBay

2004-03-30 by Peter Connelly (Core Design Ltd.)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3714865762&category=3278

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] rev9.34 SCSI HD setup commands ?

2004-03-30 by James Thomson

Hi David, You won't like this but it is not possible to partition a 4 gig drive from a OS 9.34 CMI. You have to use a OS 11.39 - 11.40 MFX software version which has a completely updated diskpart utility. You can also use any size SCSI drive as far as I know but the CMI will only

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rev9.34 SCSI HD setup commands ?

2004-03-30 by David J. Wilson

can anyone post the exact commands in 9.34 for partitioning and formatting each of up to four external 4GB SCSI HD's ? I've got four Seagate Barracuda SCSI-2 4GB HD's connected to my Rev 9.34 CMI's External SCSI connector on the rear of my chassis. The four hard drives are set to

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Re: Series I sounds....

2004-03-30 by edamjr

Rob, I emailed you about this, but no reply - perhaps you didn't get it. Very interested in pursuing this, I'm just down the road in Westchester, 4 miles from the CT border! Please get in touch - email me at mross666 at hotmail dot com - the easiest way to find out if the disks w

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Fairlight owners' day where ?

2004-03-29 by feldmann@xs4all.nl

> guess I've now finally got A DATE FOR YOU ALL. It's May 22 2004. We > need 30 people or more to pay for the venue and make the whole day > work. Please let me know what you all think. Price to follow on > confirmed numbers. - My attendance is obviously also based on the price,

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Series I sounds....

2004-03-29 by Tony Bonney - Home

Hi Mike i have a full set of Series I disks (20 i believe still in Fairlight Boxes) and a "spare" series 1 (no less),... that has provided bits for my Series IIX,... downside is i am in Australia,.. but if you want the disks (which i do not need),.. then i am sure we could come t

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Series I sounds....

2004-03-28 by Rob Brady

I have a set of Series II disks which I believe are compatible.. If someone can confirm this then I may be able to help you out. I'm in CT so it shouldn't be too much trauma.. cheers, Rob edamjr wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone by any miracle have any Series I sound disks? I have the

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Series I sounds....

2004-03-28 by edamjr

Hi folks, Does anyone by any miracle have any Series I sound disks? I have the system & QDOS disks (thank the Goddess, and Jean-Bernard!)... but that's all, folks. I'm taking my Series I to the VCF-East (Vintage Computer Festival), where I predict it will be a hit, and I'd like t

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New file uploaded to Fairlight-CMI

2004-03-27 by Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Fairlight-CMI group. File : /Fairlight_1986.pdf Uploaded by : ygacki Description : 1986 Series III sales brochure You can access this file at the URL http://groups.y

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Connecting Fairlights / SN list

2004-03-27 by feldmann@xs4all.nl

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:00:07 +0100, Malte Rogacki wrote: Hi Malthe, >> I also heard a rumour that you can actually link fairlights together to >> have more voices as if they were one, is this true ? > >The sales brochures ca. 1986 talked about voice expansions (which were to >bec

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Connecting Fairlights / SN list

2004-03-27 by Malte Rogacki

> I also heard a rumour that you can actually link fairlights together to > have more voices as if they were one, is this true ? The sales brochures ca. 1986 talked about voice expansions (which were to become available in 1987) but I don't think that ever happened. Let's see: "S

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CMI Vero 13090 hinges

2004-03-27 by James Thomson

Hi Guys, I heard of a guy in the U.S.A. who had new Vero 13090 hinges for the front door of the mainframe made. Do any of you know anything about this ? Two of my CMI's have broken Vero and I need to get replacements. Perhaps there are other solutions? Regards, James Thomson Magi

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Re: WFM-32 card for CMI series 3 - who wants one?

2004-03-27 by RY Stroh

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, john blackford wrote: > James, > > I want one !(WFM-32 card) I just bouth the mint CMI > III from Peter! > > So now I have 4 CMI III ! > > -John John, 4 CMI III ? correct me if I'm wrong... you are single, aren't you ? (Lol) R-Y

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Michael-Atherton8/8

2004-03-27 by Pascal Nicot

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Michael-Atherton6/8

2004-03-27 by Pascal Nicot

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Michael-Atherton5/8

2004-03-27 by Pascal Nicot

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Michael-Atherton4/8

2004-03-27 by Pascal Nicot

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Michael-Atherton2/8

2004-03-27 by Pascal Nicot

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Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.