Fairlight-CMI

Hi all.

I have been very busy here in Sydney doing a real job, so apologies 
for not keeping in touch. I have been meaning to get in contact with 
the group, as I still follow events daily. 

I have been in communication with Greg Holmes about the possibility 
of getting my site up again, and provide any help to the Fairlight 
community I can. 

Regarding specifically the 32 Mbyte RAM cards, I did actually long 
ago mail one of the user group members (can't remember whom), saying 
we would need a "critical mass" of 10 firm orders before we could go 
ahead and manufacture. However, I don't think this information ever 
got posted, so here we go again. I proposed that if enough folk were 
keen, they should lodge a deposit (not with myself, but some trusted 
third party), and I would start the ball rolling again. 
Unfortunately, the original PCB manufacturerer went bust, so there 
would still be the set up costs of a new run, but we do have the CAD 
board designs to use. I would also have to see if the RAM arrays are 
still available, but I'm sure there must be some around (I can still 
pick up 4Gbyte hard drives OK!). The price should be about the same: 
ie GBP 660.

Let me know if anyone's interested.

Regards,

Peter Wielk 

Horizontal Productions in sunny Sydney.

Hi Peter,
great to have you back.  glad things are prosperous for you.

a long time back I e-mailed you on helping getting the 32M WRAM board
designs completed.  I am a hardware design engineer and I design
circuit boards and semiconductor chips by day.  We've got lots
of PCB fab shops here in Austin due to Dell, AMD, Motorola, Agere,
SUN, IBM, etc. being right here locally.  If you need any help 
getting the CAD files sorted out and boards manufactured, let me know.
the only caveat being I'm in the USA and my manufacturing
contacts are here.  By looking at the components on the WFM-32 card
on Joe Britt's web page, it looks like a fairly trivial design.
the memory module (if it's older EDO DRAM) being the only real thing
to track down. 

I'd be up for putting my $ deposit in for 32M card or two. If I may
say, I hesitate only because I'd like to see you stick around with us 
in the Fairlight group for support and see the order through, and
hopefully you don't get lost in the shuffle again. :-)

cheers !
David


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "horiprod" 
<horizontal_productions@h...> wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I have been very busy here in Sydney doing a real job, so apologies 
> for not keeping in touch. I have been meaning to get in contact 
with 
> the group, as I still follow events daily. 
> 
> I have been in communication with Greg Holmes about the possibility 
> of getting my site up again, and provide any help to the Fairlight 
> community I can. 
> 
> Regarding specifically the 32 Mbyte RAM cards, I did actually long 
> ago mail one of the user group members (can't remember whom), 
saying 
> we would need a "critical mass" of 10 firm orders before we could 
go 
> ahead and manufacture. However, I don't think this information ever 
> got posted, so here we go again. I proposed that if enough folk 
were 
> keen, they should lodge a deposit (not with myself, but some 
trusted 
> third party), and I would start the ball rolling again. 
> Unfortunately, the original PCB manufacturerer went bust, so there 
> would still be the set up costs of a new run, but we do have the 
CAD 
> board designs to use. I would also have to see if the RAM arrays 
are 
> still available, but I'm sure there must be some around (I can 
still 
> pick up 4Gbyte hard drives OK!). The price should be about the 
same: 

> ie GBP 660.
> 
> Let me know if anyone's interested.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Wielk 
> 
> Horizontal Productions in sunny Sydney.