Fairlight-CMI

Hi Laurent,

You obviously didn't read the hardware overview on my site as 
suggested! With an older rev 5 machine, you can't access any more 
than 14 Mbytes of RAM. This is a limit of the 68000 processor in your 
machine. An upgraded machine has a 68020 processor which can address 
up to 32 Mbytes. You can run a WFM-32 board in an older rev 5 
machine, but you can only use 14 Mbytes of it....

I don't have any of these boards at the moment. We built the first 
batch of 20, and they sold pretty quickly. I'm trying to contact the 
designer, who worked for Fairlight in Oz to rustle up some more, but 
since they went bust (again), he's been hard to find. I'll keep the 
group informed. 

Regards,

Peter Wielk


PS: A bit of friendly advice if you're keeping your machine "as is": 
Buy up a few NDR 1140 or Maxtor 1140 hard drives. The rest of the 
machine is built to last, but the hard drives will definitely go. 
They will start making noises, and you'll start getting "error #246 
read error". ALLWAYS BACKUP. "If your data isn't physically in two 
other places, it doesn't exist"....








> I understand your point of view. And I agree that an updated 
fairlight is
> faster and have access to a wider set of scsi devices. However, 
from a
> collector point of view, I do think that keeping the older machines 
alive
> and running with their original specs is worthwhile.
> 
> Personnaly, I would be interested to buy the 32Mb memory board to 
fit in
> my Series III. Could you tell the price of the WFM32 board for the 
yahoo group
> members ?
> 
> Regards.
> 
>     Laurent.