Fairlight-CMI

Hi John,

Congratulation for your new CMI. I bought Chris Hughes' Synclavier 2
a few weeks ago and spent many days with JB on it to restore it to its
original state. I believe you'll have to follow the same path...

I offered 1000 GBP for this CMI. It's an early version and as you 
noticed,
it needs a complete check-up and cleanup. And maybe more...

To answer your questions, the 7 boards on the left are 2Mb waveform
memory CMI-39. The Voice cards are the 8 boards in the middle CMI-31.
The leds will only flash when the boards are used (playing samples).

 From what I saw, there are no missing cables in your CMI. However, I
wouldn't recommand you to remove components like ROMs or whatever
if you don't know what you're doing...

Best regards.

      Laurent.




On 12 juil. 05, at 20:57, john945277 wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>              I bought the racked Fairlight series III from Chris Hughes
>  & Ross Cullum.
>  As you might expect I'm having a few problems (It is at least  18
>  years old & has not been used for a long time.)
>
>  Here are some pics please take a look.
> http://uk.photos.yahoo.com/john.hopkins2@btinternet.com
>
>  Software Version is 5.4a
>
>  Internally it is very dusty, music keyboard is a little scraped &
>  chipped but does power up, only one sticky key. I had to make a cable
>  for the DC power to the keyboard. The calc keypad works, LED display
>  also works. The Alphanumeric keyboard works fine just a little
>  yellowed with age, the graphics pen is in one piece & the
>  monitor works.                                               
>
>        When I first got the machine & powered it up the HDD was very 
> noisy
>  The machine did boot to the point where it said on the screen "Do you
>  want the page Accelerator?" Then it would load various files into
>  memory. Then the prompt would say "Do you really want to run the CMI?
>  Y/N"  when I selected  the screen would clear the HDD would access &
>  then the cursor would disappear. The machine then just sat there doing
>  nothing no HDD activity. However long I left it it would not time out.
>  If I selected no it would go into OS9 from which I could browse the
>  files on the hard disk etc. When browsing the HDD I checked that the
>  Fairlight files existed.
>
>  I have also noticed that the 8 cards in the mainframe on the left hand
>  side (Voice channel cards?) have a Red LED on them. These do not
>  illuminate.
>
>  Also I think there may be a missing 10 way ribbon cable  please see
>  pics Missing Ribbon cable 1? & Missing Ribbon cable 2? from the card
>  cage to the front panel. Could this be why the CMI did not load
>
>        Anyway I decided to reseat the ROM's on the cards in the 
> mainframe,
>  although I did not do the channel voice cards. Unfortunately since
>  then when I boot the machine now I just get a fatal system error. HDD
>  spins & I can hear the heads access the disk HDD LED lights up.
>  Unfortunately as I do not have a bootable floppy disk or operating
>  system etc.  I'm not even sure the FDD works
>  .
>  Did I damage the SCSI boot card (Q777?) card on the far left hand
>  side. Was it just a coincidence or did a file get corrupted when I was
>  power cycling the machine or has the HDD died?
>  When I disconnect the HDD the error message is Boot disk faulty.
>
>  It would be a shame if I had to format the HDD as when I was browsing
>  it I noticed that there where some sounds on it. I would have liked to
>  try these.
>
>  Sorry about the long post. Can anybody help me please? 
>             
>                                                                      
>                          Cheers John.
>
>  PS   Does anybody know what   WOOLHALL 11/10/91 might refer to.
>  PSS  If you look closly at the user manual you can just make out the
>  name Blue Weaver that has been scribbled over. Heard of him? What
>  might his connection be to this machine or manual.
>  PPPS  What was or is Datehurst Ltd ?
>
>
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