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8. I remember that fondly, not to mention the Fairlight CMI...

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:47 PM

Sep 5

...which also used 8" floppies to store what were then considered to be colossal-sized audio samples. Little did we know that by the 2000s, we would have literally gigabyte-sized samples streaming from hard disk (Tascam's "Gigasampler" software).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI

I think the later versions of the Fairlight used some of the very first commercially-viable hard drives, as 8" floppies weren't too practical for live performances, and those machines were going on concert tours all over the world.

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