Fairlight-CMI

Hi Peter,

 Could it be that the tapes were formatted and the sounds saved with a pre
waveform supervisor CMI ? Maybe there was a change between the pre and post
Waveform supervisor CMIs regarding the tape drive. Another idea may be that
your tape drive is out of alignment with  the original tape drive that was
used to save the sounds.
 I am only making wild asumptions though ! Good luck!

Cheers,

James Thomson





On 25/9/05 18:35, "Peter" <PeterC@Core-Design.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Just a follow up...
> 
> As none of the 30 tapes I was given are readable by my CMI, I tried
> to write to one of them from my CMI, just to see if the tapes are
> still functional.
> 
> The one I tried seems fine and I can successfully write to and from
> (using TOTAPE & FROMTAPE commands. I wiped it too during totape (-
> w)). No softerrors whatsoever. This tape, with contents from 1988,
> was previously giving an "Unexpected Tape Error 3) message, but as I
> said it's now fine when formatted with my machine.
> 
> What does this mean?
> 
> 1) The oringal contents have deteriorated, but the tape is still
> intact.
> 2) The Streamer Heads need re-alligning (is this possible/easy to
> do?).
> 
> ??????
> 
> I know these are not easy questions to answer, but if anyone can
> shed any light or offer me guidance, that would be superb!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Peter