Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "simon" <simonflinn@...> wrote:
> As far as I understand it, the battery is not essential. It holds date, time, and these can 
be 
> entered on power up..
Thanks. I always assumed this. But now I know for sure.

> Can I help you at all, I'm currently working on fixing a IIx here in London, UK.
> If you need a set of eproms burning, I can do that very easily, I have plenty of 16k / 64k 
> eproms here to use, I just made a set for myself today. Just let me know where to post 
them 
> to and I'll do that right away.

Thank you! But it won't be necessary. I've got my own Eprom burner which has been 
helpful restoring the CPU controller card.

But my Series IIx still isn't working either. It seems that the CPU card has also sustained 
damage caused by the battery acid. We're now putting most IC's on sockets so they can be 
easily replaced.

Currently, when I boot the IIx I get vertical screens on the monitor and the drives aren't 
responding. I know for sure that my CPU controller card and the CPU card are defective 
since I tested them in another working IIx.

> Hopefully you can help me, can you photograph your floppy card, qfc9? Just so I can see 
what 
> eprom you have in there..? And what eproms do you have on your cmi 28 card, slot 2, 
what 
> size are they?

Here you go:

QFC9 card: http://kunst.phl.be/~dvdborn/fairlight/QFC9_1.jpg
QFC9 card close up: http://kunst.phl.be/~dvdborn/fairlight/QFC9_2.jpg
Slot 2 card:  http://kunst.phl.be/~dvdborn/fairlight/slot2_1.jpg
Slot 2 card close up: http://kunst.phl.be/~dvdborn/fairlight/slot2_2.jpg

Not the best photographs but I'm guessing they'll do for your purpose. If not, let me know.

Let me know if there's any progress with repairing your IIx. I'll do the same on this forum.

Best,
David
http://dvdborn.blogspot.com