Fairlight-CMI

Hi,

> I've woken my IIx from its peaceful slumber just a few weeks ago and
> luckily it's in good working order. Now that it's back in the studio
> setup again I would like to dig in again.
> 
> - As the IIx is supposed to be able to boot OS-9 does anyone have
> this on 8"? I'm specifically looking for assembler/compiler stuff to
> really dig into the machine. The service manual mentions a QDOS
> version but that one seems to be even more rare. I've contacted Blue
> Weaver (most probably the original owner of my machine) and he
> mentioned he used to program it using OS9. And Greg Holmes mentions
> on his pages that he spent time disassembling, so something must be
> out there.
Yes, CMI IIx work fine witdh OS-9 (the same for CMI III)...
I have assembler for under Qdos and other tools.
My last version of QDos is 5.09, witdh HardDrive drivers !

The Qdos are Fairlight light custom from Motorola MDOS...
See this : http://www.exorciser.net/excorciser_en.htm


> - Has anyone ever seen the Q077/Q087 harddisk controller? Someone
> mentioned that the Q777 SCSI would also work. Has anyone ever tried
> this?
Not, but if have time a test this ;)

> - Has anyone got 2 Q256 cards in their IIx? If so, what does it do?
> Does it expand sequence memory?
Yes, more memory are only form external bank memory...
OS-9 work better with it ;)

JB