Fairlight-CMI

Hi,

my Fairlight IIx has also 3.5" Floppies installed and you can copy or start from either of them.
Both ate installed between the 8" drives and it was done by a guy called Kampfhofer, who did 
some cool mods in the 80s and 90s. He also gave my Jupiter 4 full Midi (sending and receiving all sliders as well !!!) 
and 128 programs.
It's nice to have the os starting and running from 3.5" and I copied most of my sound Disks to 3,5"
for backup and safety. Though I must say that I use the 8" drives from time to time, otherwise
the hydraulic oil in them get sticky. 
I will post some pics asap.

Best

Thomas

On May 24, 2010, at 12:16 AM, dkevefnzs wrote:

> Hi all,
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> this is just to note that I've successfully replaced the 8" drives on the CMI II with 3.5" drives. 8" disks can directly be copied to 3.5" as long as one drive of either size is attached.
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> I guess the same mod should also work on a CMI IIx. It has one tiny limitation from technical perfection, but in practice, has performed flawlessly in my system.
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> And... with the CMI II positioned in a "tower" orientation with the floppy drives on the upper end, I left the top (former right) panel unscrewed and placed both 3.5" drives right under that hood. Lifting the panel I can easily change disks - and putting it back in place, apart from the missing noise and blinkenlights off the old drives (and the cessation of my involvement in 8" disk ebay-auctions), you shouldn't notice a difference :-)
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> I'm wondering if anyone else should be interested in this mod. If so, please send me a message - however, I'm probably busy till mid June and don't check my yahoo account very often, so please allow me some time to respond.
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> Thank you & cheers, js
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