Fairlight-CMI

According to the editorial pages in the January 1989 copy of Music 
Technology magazine, the Waveform superisor was part of the Rev7 
upgrade which was about to be introduced, so I'd guess it would be 
around that time.

This article also stated something which got me thinking in that the 
Rev7 package also included the option for 'high capcacity' 380MB 
ESDI drives. Does this mean that you could theoretically connect one 
of the older ESDI drives to a Waveform Super SCSI Bus?

I know not many people would wish to do this, but does anyone know 
if this is technically possible?

Chris.

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter" <PeterC@C...> wrote:
> When was the Waveform Supervisor added? A lot of these tapes are 
> from around 1988 - 1991/2
> 
> My machine is a 9.34 but don't know (yet) what revision the 
machine 
> was these came from.
> 
> P
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, James Thomson 
> <jamesthomson@m...> wrote:
> > 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@C...> 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