Monday, April 21, 2008
Fairlight CMI
YouTube via psvbluemts
"Except from TV documentary about Australian venture capital industry in 1984 showing rare footage inside the Fairlight factory. Features Peter Vogel, Kim Ryrie, Mars Lazar."
Update: you might recognize the Fairlight in the last video from this post.
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I always wondered what happened to Fairlight. Now I know :-(
ReplyDeleteThe 'video instrument' was pretty much a video toaster 3 years ahead of it's time yet cost 20 times more than a fully decked out Amiga. Innovative product but Fairlight still clung to their 'no product under $50K' philosophy. You can only sell so many high end machines like that. At some point you have to lower the bar and make the technology affordable for the average person lest someone else beats you to it.
IMO, they totally botched the user interface with the touch pad on the CMI Model 3 -- the Model II used a light pen with a skin resistance sensor that was way more responsive and intuitive.
BTW, what was with that prattle about the weapons industry? Sounds like the 80's equivalent to the 'Saddam is buying PS2s to use as weapons' urban myth. :-P
Correction -- Fairlight is still alive and kicking and still pushing the evelope of electronic instrument UI's
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xynergi#CC-1_Processor
I'm humbled.