Fairlight-CMI

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

> Joe Sleator
> 
> Sounds familier, but I cant put a face to the name.

Ahh Steve, one word. Helicopter. 1988,89,90. Worked on Cue-List and MFX1 console.

Anyway, one IIx is working well. Do you know of any FCNs for IIx that brought Rev2 CMI-01As up to Rev3/4? I'm reverse engineering one now. It's going quite well. Built a daughter card to hold the SSM2045. Fewer parts than the CEM3320 based one. Quentin's re-do was nicely modular in that regard.

Best,

Joe

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Rance" <steve@...> wrote:
>
> Was it supported by both QDOS and OS9?
> 
> Yes, the TVT card (as we called it) was mapped into processor 1's address
> space. With the jumpers in the default position the 1st screen was mapped in
> at 0xD000 and the 2nd screen was mapped at 0xD800. It's been 15-20 years, so
> those addresses may be wrong.
> 
>  
> 
> did you work on the Series IIL?
> 
> Did you mean the Series IIIL - (3L) - I can't recall a Series 2 with the "L"
> modifier.
> 
> But yes, I worked on all version of the CMI and ultimately MFX (and the
> start of CC-1) until late 2006
> 
>  
> 
> 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?
> 
> As far as I remember,  with only one floppy in the system and a hard disk
> controller, the operating system (QDOS or CMI DOS) would boot from the
> floppy first, if a hard disk controller was present half way thru the boot
> up it would swap over to the hard drive and boot the remainder of the OS
> from the hard disk. There was not a way to boot directly from the hard disk.
> Once the system had booted, the floppy drive was then assigned the "data"
> drive or drive 1.
> 
>  
> 
> Then came along OS9, this was a totally different beast and new Q077 and
> Q777 ROMS could boot to the hard disk directly.
> 
>  
> 
> Joe Sleator
> 
> Sounds familier, but I cant put a face to the name.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  <http://www.fairlightus.com/> SteveRance
> 
>  
> 
> From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of tama_rat
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 21:05
> To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: A few new schematics
> 
>  
> 
> 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
> <mailto:Fairlight-CMI%40yahoogroups.com> , "Steve Rance" <steve@> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [Steve]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > <http://www.fairlightus.com/> SteveRance
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Fairlight-CMI%40yahoogroups.com> 
> [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Fairlight-CMI%40yahoogroups.com> ]
> > On Behalf Of tama_rat
> > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 17:11
> > To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Fairlight-CMI%40yahoogroups.com>
> 
> > Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] A few new schematics
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I just posted a few new things on http://nonmaskable.com:
> > 
> > - 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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