Fairlight-CMI

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the feedback on the Q050.  Was it supported by both QDOS
and OS9?

By any chance, did you work on the Series IIL?  From the Series II(x)
service manual, I would guess that it used the Q077 with a Western
Digital 1002 to interface with an MFM drive.

I'd like to know if some versions of released CMI software were aware
of that configuration.  Specifically, could the CMI boot QDOS and the
CMI software from the HD, and what happened to the notion of the
"LEFT" and "RIGHT" drives in that case?

I have a IIx (kind of a strange one, it was Herbie Hancock's) and 2.5
Series III machines (1 working Rev6, 1 working Rev9, and 1 basket case
Rev6).  All great machines!

Also, I think you know another friend of mine, Joe Sleator.  He's
cobbling together a IIx now.

Best,
Joe


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Rance" <steve@...> wrote:
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> A Q050! I have a few. This card pre-dated the bit map graphics cards and
> could display 80x25 character cells. They were never a end user
board for
> users of the CMI and early MFX systems but were extensively used by
R&D for
> high speed debugging.
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> [Steve]
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>  <http://www.fairlightus.com/> SteveRance
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> From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of tama_rat
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 17:11
> To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] A few new schematics
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> I just posted a few new things on http://nonmaskable.com:
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> - schematics for the Series I/II CMI-01 and CMI-01A voice boards
> - schematic for the obscure Q050 Dual TVT board (I think this was a
> QASAR artifact, anyone got one?)
> 
> Joe
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