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 the early 1980s and competed in the market with the Synclavier from New England Digital.

A basic system would have cost around £18,000 at the time. Most of the Fairlight's functionality is now available in an iPad app. £29 buys you the fully enabled application.

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