Fairlight-CMI

Hey Joe,
How are you?
It's Glenn in Cupertino

Thanks again for your help with the floppy library, and for selling me the two USB mouse/monitor adspters( embarrased to say I've used the fairlight a few times since, but not hooked up the usb devices yet (health and time)

This probably sounds strange, but after a recent stroke/aneurism, gone off the opiates for pain, and actually applying myself to the things I've slways meant to ( maybe having wiken up to how short time could be). 

Part of my rehabilitation has been a membership and classes at Techshop ( techshop.com)

I mention this because while I've started there and taking classes ( partly to pursue the replacement hinges idea we spoke of( please don't tell anyone though), I mention it because I can probably do small production of metal/plastic there, affordably, if you're open to the possibility, to help with any future products for fairlight you may be interested in making

Will hope for your help testing the hinges when I get to that stage;)

Hope you're doing well, thanks for helping us all out so much, with the things you've designed

Would the hxc work okay in place of series III drives as well?

Please come by and visit me and my fairlights sometime?

Am right by stevens creek blvd and foothill blvd


Glenn

408-868-8309

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On Sep 19, 2012, at 12:56 PM, "tama_rat" <britt@shapetable.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi everyone, sorry I haven't been able to reply sooner -- too much (non-Fairlight) stuff going on!
> 
> I'd like to make a CMI retrofit kit for the HxC, and probably will, but it will likely take a while. I've only got a little time on the weekends to work on it.
> 
> The older machines have the full-height floppy drives but the newer ones have the half-height drives with a painted metal bezel/cover to fill the extra space. Take a look a the pictures of my machine in the photos section and you'll see what I mean.
> 
> That metal frame comes out pretty easily. What I'd like to do is make a replacement frame that includes a cutout for the 3.5" drive form factor HxC.  That would let you keep the existing drives installed, and you wouldn't need to cut any metal. I found a local metal shop that I think can make the frame, but have not had time to visit them yet.
> 
> I'd also like to put a couple of small switches on that frame to let you select whether the HxC or old drive(s) is(are) used.
> 
> For adapting the ribbon cable that carries the floppy signals, I am using a board I made long ago when I was experimenting with 3.5" drives on the CMI. I would want to make a few changes to the board before releasing it.
> 
> We also need to get power to the HxC. I made an adapter cable that the 8" drive cable plugs into, but it is a older connector that I don't think is easily found. I want to find a better option for that power connection.
> 
> I like the idea of mounting the HxC inside the card cage, but think it won't be very practical -- you really want access to the buttons and display on the front of the unit.
> 
> The converted disk images are each 3.2MB. If you have a 1GB SD card, that will hold over 300 CMI disks!
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dvdborn" <dvdborn@...> wrote:
> >
> > Me too!
> > 
> > David
> > http://dvdborn.blogspot.com
> > 
> > 
> > --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "WT" <waveterm@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I´m in !
> > > 
> > > WT
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Peter K." <synthserv@>
> > > To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:42 PM
> > > Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] HxC and CMI IIx Floppydrive replacement
> > > 
> > > 
> > > First of all: Thanks very much Joe for your help. . I read on the HxC forum 
> > > that problems with image seem to be solved. 
> > > (http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=118&p=6950#p6950)
> > > 
> > > Next step would be creating a frontplate, same size as one floppydrive, 
> > > holding two HxC "floppydrives" and one switch, so one of the HxC 
> > > "floppydrives" can be switched with the remaining, original floppydrive, so 
> > > 8" discs can be copied to the HxC "floppydrive".
> > > 
> > > Perhaps we can do this as a group in order to keep costs down?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Peter Kersten.
> > > 
> > > From: Gordon JC Pearce
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:18 PM
> > > To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: "CMI Plug" 4 Gbyte bootable drive on a SCSI 
> > > connector!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 12/09/12 18:59, James Thomson wrote:
> > > > Hi Joe,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for all of your hard work in bringing such exciting
> > > > developments for the CMI 2X. You first gave us the USB mouse and TFT
> > > > monitor adaptor and now it looks like we will soon be able to use a
> > > > modern storage solution ! Please keep us up to date. Thanks !
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I reckon you're all thinking too small and too expensive.
> > > 
> > > *Everyone* who uses a sampler with SCSI runs into this bother. The E-mu
> > > ESI list (before the moderator stopped approving posts) had a couple of
> > > people a month looking for something like this - and that's just one
> > > make and model, with the people who knew what they wanted to ask for.
> > > 
> > > Pump them out to everyone that uses SCSI samplers, and even old
> > > computers with SCSI disks. You'll get your volumes up and your prices
> > > down. Everyone wins.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ
> > >
> >
> 
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