Fairlight CMI demonstration from 1980
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Fairlight CMI demonstration from 1980
Kieran Prendiville demonstrating the revolutionary Fairlight CMI (Computer Music Instrument) on the BBC's Tomorrow's World Program. The system itself was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia.It rose to prominence in ...
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