Fairlight-CMI

Hi John,

Congrats on the CMI purchase. I cannot help out on the technical issues as 
I'm just a Fairlight dreamer at the moment!

However, Blue Weaver has been a keyboard player and producer for many years. 
See

http://www.strawbpage.ndirect.co.uk/hist/weaver.htm  (he played keys on 
Saturday Night Fever!!)

He has also been a Fairlight user since the early 80's. His old series IIx 
is located at the EMIS Synth Museum in Bristol (it boots up with his name on 
the screen.

Andy

>From: "john945277" <john.hopkins2@btinternet.com>
>Reply-To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
>To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Racked Series III
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:57:40 -0000
>
>Hi Guys,
>             I bought the racked Fairlight series III from Chris Hughes
>& Ross Cullum.
>As you might expect I'm having a few problems (It is at least  18
>years old & has not been used for a long time.)
>
>Here are some pics please take a look.
>http://uk.photos.yahoo.com/john.hopkins2@btinternet.com
>
>Software Version is 5.4a
>
>Internally it is very dusty, music keyboard is a little scraped &
>chipped but does power up, only one sticky key. I had to make a cable
>for the DC power to the keyboard. The calc keypad works, LED display
>also works. The Alphanumeric keyboard works fine just a little
>yellowed with age, the graphics pen is in one piece & the
>monitor works.
>
>	When I first got the machine & powered it up the HDD was very noisy
>The machine did boot to the point where it said on the screen "Do you
>want the page Accelerator?" Then it would load various files into
>memory. Then the prompt would say "Do you really want to run the CMI?
>Y/N"  when I selected  the screen would clear the HDD would access &
>then the cursor would disappear. The machine then just sat there doing
>nothing no HDD activity. However long I left it it would not time out.
>If I selected no it would go into OS9 from which I could browse the
>files on the hard disk etc. When browsing the HDD I checked that the
>Fairlight files existed.
>
>I have also noticed that the 8 cards in the mainframe on the left hand
>side (Voice channel cards?) have a Red LED on them. These do not
>illuminate.
>
>Also I think there may be a missing 10 way ribbon cable  please see
>pics Missing Ribbon cable 1? & Missing Ribbon cable 2? from the card
>cage to the front panel. Could this be why the CMI did not load
>
>	Anyway I decided to reseat the ROM's on the cards in the mainframe,
>although I did not do the channel voice cards. Unfortunately since
>then when I boot the machine now I just get a fatal system error. HDD
>spins & I can hear the heads access the disk HDD LED lights up.
>Unfortunately as I do not have a bootable floppy disk or operating
>system etc.  I'm not even sure the FDD works
>.
>  Did I damage the SCSI boot card (Q777?) card on the far left hand
>side. Was it just a coincidence or did a file get corrupted when I was
>power cycling the machine or has the HDD died?
>When I disconnect the HDD the error message is Boot disk faulty.
>
>It would be a shame if I had to format the HDD as when I was browsing
>it I noticed that there where some sounds on it. I would have liked to
>try these.
>
>Sorry about the long post. Can anybody help me please?
>
>
>                         Cheers John.
>
>PS   Does anybody know what   WOOLHALL 11/10/91 might refer to.
>PSS  If you look closly at the user manual you can just make out the
>name Blue Weaver that has been scribbled over. Heard of him? What
>might his connection be to this machine or manual.
>PPPS  What was or is Datehurst Ltd ?
>
>

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