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Blast from the past

2005-03-01 by Peter Vogel

Thrilled to discover this group which Peter Connolly introduced me to. 
I'm amazed there's still so many Fairlight CMIs operating!

I never did own one, although I have some interesting memorabilia in my
attic.  I have the one and only prototype of a product called
"Lightwriter" which was the CMI processor and graphics boards jammed
into a case wwith the CRT and lightpen, dual 8" floppies and word
processing software.  I don't dare plug it in.  The power supply is a
separate box you can hardly lift (I think it was a 50 amps 5V linear
supply).

I also have one of the few Voicetrackers made.  Does anyone else have
one of them?

I think there's a source of pdfed user manuals and service manuals out
there, but if not, I have one of each for the Series III, the service
manual in particular would be very useful if anyone's trying to fix a
board or build a substitute.

And to answer an old thread from a couple of years ago: yes, the
QDOS operating system was derived from the Exorciser, licensed from
Motorola.

Any obscure historial questions, I'll try and remember....

Peter Vogel
ICE Personal Digital Television
30 Adeline St, Faulconbridge 2776
Australia
Tel: 02  4751 8735
Mob: 0410 192 006
Fax: 02 4751 2601
email: peter.vogel@icetv.info

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