Excerpt from TV documentary about Australian venture capital industry in 1984, showing rare footage inside the Fairlight factory and a demo of the Fairlight CMI.
Features Peter Vogel, Kim Ryrie, Mars Lazar.
via psvbluemts, itsfullofstars
Excerpt from TV documentary about Australian venture capital industry in 1984, showing rare footage inside the Fairlight factory and a demo of the Fairlight CMI.
Features Peter Vogel, Kim Ryrie, Mars Lazar.
via psvbluemts, itsfullofstars
No, my bottle sounds are sampled in ultra high quality 8-bit 24kHz. We've entered a world of sound effectively indistinguishable from real life. The DeLorean samples on my Fairlight sound just like a real DeLorean. IN THE ROOM.
I've got 16KB of VRAM to show you with.
I'd quite forgotten how fuzzy and blurry the 1980s were. And how amazingly yellow.
But… wow. What a great, crazy toy the CMI was. We shall not see it's like again. At least, until the next great, crazy toy. There should be one or two between now and the next big economic recession. Unemployed technologists can be amazingly inventive.
I'd quite forgotten how fuzzy and blurry the 1980s were. And how amazingly yellow.
But… wow. What a great, crazy toy the CMI was. We shall not see it's like again. At least, until the next great, crazy toy. There should be one or two between now and the next big economic recession. Unemployed technologists can be amazingly inventive.
Pshaw. My computer can, like, TOTALLY do all that stuff.
Kidding. Kidding.
Yeah, but it doesn't have the 80 character x 25 line green display and a price tag of $40,000, does it? I LAUGH at your tiny USB ports!
🙂
Yeah, but it doesn't have the 80 character x 25 line green display and a price tag of $40,000, does it? I LAUGH at your tiny USB ports!
🙂
Parallel Ports 4 life?
A daisywheel printer is not just for Christmas! And I have serious doubts about the fidelity of your bottle noises!
🙂 🙂
No, my bottle sounds are sampled in ultra high quality 8-bit 24kHz. We've entered a world of sound effectively indistinguishable from real life. The DeLorean samples on my Fairlight sound just like a real DeLorean. IN THE ROOM.
I've got 16KB of VRAM to show you with.
No, my bottle sounds are sampled in ultra high quality 8-bit 24kHz. We've entered a world of sound effectively indistinguishable from real life. The DeLorean samples on my Fairlight sound just like a real DeLorean. IN THE ROOM.
I've got 16KB of VRAM to show you with.
I apologize. I am still racked with pain and guilt over the demise of my father. He was an itinerant Peruvian pan-pipe player until suddenly put out of work by a beer bottle sample on the CMI in the mid-1980s. CURSE YOU, FAIRLIGHT! He went into terminal demise, believing that the CMI blew while his own haunting music merely sucked. <sigh>
And all this time I was worried about the "Orchestral hit" guys.