Fairlight-CMI

Hi all,

see the picture of Qasar with Tony Furse...

and M8 in Fairlight (black) box at this url:

http://www.anerd.com/fairlight/gallery.htm

an other in colour here:
http://www.amol.org.au/guide/stories/switched_on/index.asp

nice day...

JB

Le 30 nov. 04, à 23:30, John Twyman a écrit :

>
> At 06:16 PM 30/11/2004, you wrote:
>
>>> To me it looks like a Quasar M8...
>>
>> A Quasar or probably the prototype of the CMI I? I saw this unit in 
>> the
>> Powerhouse museum in Sydney two years ago. It was shown in the 
>> exhibition
>> "Australia made inventions".
>
> Hi folks,
>
> It's definitely the QASAR M8. Tony Furse donated the M8 plus a 
> considerable
> number of circuit diagrams, code printouts, correspondence, newspaper
> clippings, etc., in 1986. A great archive of materials (I made use of 
> it
> for my recent research).
>
> Alongside the M8, the Powerhouse also has in its collection:
>
> a CMI series I (used by Australian composer/musician Andrew Thomas 
> Wilson);
> a Fairlight QASAR business machine (see below);
> a QASAR II, the duophonic analog synthesizer Furse built for the 
> Canberra
> School of Music prior to working on the M8
>
> I spoke with the music curator of the Powerhouse a while ago and he 
> told me
> that they also had a complete series II or IIx in storage. Last time 
> he'd
> pulled it out for an exhibition, he was able to get it working but 
> that was
> some time ago.
>
> Whilst Ryrie, Vogel and Furse were transforming the M8 into the CMI I, 
> they
> were selling the "Fairlight QASAR" as a business machine to help 
> generate
> funds. The QASAR business machine in the Powerhouse collection was 
> used by
> St. Vincents hospital in Sydney, Australia, to manage the records of
> patients in the Intensive Care ward. It was purchased with funds, or
> received as a gift, from a heart bypass patient of the hospital.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
> john twyman
> school of geosciences
> university of sydney
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