2 Nov
2007
2 Nov
'07
2:35 a.m.
On Friday 02 November 2007 04:02:19 Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Jason T wrote:
That's it exactly. It was the Akai S612 - or more specifically, the Akai
MD280 external disk drive. IIRC the sampler could be bought without the
drive, and either send and receive samples over sysex or from tape. I
*think* it had 48k of memory.
I passed up the chance to buy one, with the drive and a large library of
disks, for 50 quid in a music shop in Inverness a few years ago. Oh well.
Gordon
Not sure if any computer ever used them, but I
remember having an old
Akai sampler that used a bizarre "Quickdisk" format. The sampler is
long gone, but somewhere I have one or two of the disks, which will be
handy should I ever try to create a magnetic media display of some
sort. I think they measured...2.75" (?) and held...not much at all.
was that a 2.8" diskette with a single continuous spiral track?