Fairlight-CMI

>  would you mind telling us more about this 2x with 3 1/2" drives? Where was
> it and who owned this system ? Did it work well? Many thanks,

The IIx had two additional drives "sandwiched" between the 8" drives.
Detailed operation escapes me; this has been roughly ten years ago. I
believe if a floppy was present in the target 3.5 drive it was used; if not
the 8" drive had priority (this is strictly from memory).
The mod itself worked very well; copying and working with the 3.5 floppies
worked like a charm and everything was very quiet.
I don't recall which way the floppies were formatted but I believe it was
not a standard 1.44 MByte format.
The modification consisted of the floppies and an additional board with
various chips on it; but the chip labels were scratched off or painted over
(can't remember) for obvious reasons. I'm trying to recall who did the
modification.

-- 
Malte Rogacki gacki@gacki.sax.de
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