Fairlight-CMI

I actully posted the message below to Laurent, but it may be of 
interest to others... Let me know.


I'm afraid I don't have any further information about the old style 
Hitachi hard discs as I gave all of these and controller cards to 
Colin Ross before I left London. You'll also find that the discs are 
next to impossible to find, which is one of the (many) reasons I 
don't get involved in the earlier rev 6 machines any more. Upgraded 
rev 9 machines can format and access virtually any hard drive up to 4 
Gbyes, are lightning fast, AND SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME as before. 
There are a huge number of other improvements and new features too, 
which you read about on my website at www.horizontal.co.uk  I know 
that no-one on these pages wants to spend money getting their old 
machines upgraded, but I may be able to offer a solution: I could 
sell an upgrade kit of waveform supervisor card, formatted 4 Gbyte 
hard disc full of excellent sound libraries and the revision 9 
software, new manuals, full instructions and all the loose components 
for about GBP 1,000. However, you would have to get a very good 
technician to do this, and you still might have timing problems with 
old 2 Mbyte RAM cards. There are no problems with 4, 8 or 32 Mbyte 
cards.. I could even include a colour graphics card (so you can use a 
sexy flat LCD screen) for an extra GBP 500..  Also, there's no tax 
now! 

Hope this is helpful,

regards,

Peter Wielk