Fairlight-CMI

On 27/11/05 21:25, "Malte Rogacki" <gacki@gacki.sax.de> wrote:

>>  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.


Hi malte,

This sounds brilliant ! Anything you can remember would be appreciated. If
only you knew where this CMI 2X is now.
Cheers,

James Thomson