Fairlight-CMI

Hi Harald,

To answer your questions:
 
> 1. Can a Series III without MFXkbd run OS 11.39 and produce music 
or 
> does it need to have the MFXkbd attached ?

Yes, a series III can run rev 11.39 software without an mfx keyboard. 
The CMI must have a waversuper with 4 Mbyte private RAM, and you'd 
need a colour graphics card to see anything.... 

 
> 2. Is there a hardware modification needed to have a series III run 
> 11.39 instead of, say version 6 if the objective is to have more 
> music functionality (don't care about the Mfxkbd) ?

Fairlight CMI IIIs can be divided into two very disticnt groups. 
The "early" systems could run up to revision 6 software, max 14 
Mbytes RAM, and house-brick sized hard drives.

"Later" or upgraded CMIs can run software from revison 7 to revision 
11.39, although most of these would be running 9.34. They can access 
32 Mbytes RAM, and modern SCSI devices up to 4 Gbytes. There are big 
hardware diiferences between the two machines. Read more about them 
in the hardware overview on my site at: www.horizontal.co.uk

So, you can't run 11.39 on a rev 6 machine! But why try and run 11.39 
at all if you're not using the disc recorder ??? Rev 9.34 is 
fundementally the same as rev 11.39 apart from the disc recorder....

Regards,

Peter Wielk