Usagi Electric | Reviving a 1970’s Hard Drive for the Mini Centurion! @UsagiElectric | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
VCF Southwest is barreling down on us real fast, and none of my junk works, haha. Time to hunker down and start getting stuff over the finish line. The Mini-Centurion is specifically meant for shows and right now, it doesn’t have a hard drive. So, in this episode, we dive in deep to try to bring the old 14” Hawk drive that’s bolted to it back into the land of the living.
If you want to know more about the Centurion, the wiki is full of just about everything we know:
github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki
Come hang out with us at VCF Southwest:
vcfsw.org
Check out John’s shop, Kad Industries, here:
kadindustries.com
Check out Butler Tech here:
butlertech.org
If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon: patreon.com/usagielectric
Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale!
my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com
Come join us on Discord!
Discord: discord.gg/p7UsfHD
Intro Music adapted from: Artist:
The Runaway Five Title:
The Shinra Shuffle ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847
Thanks for watching!
Chapters
0:00 Carry on my wayward son…
5:56 Power supply shenanigans
12:30 Head cleaning and disk inspection
15:08 Loading the heads and failing to boot
18:18 What went wrong?
20:37 Repairing the drive and aligning the heads
26:14 Test drive
28:08 The good, the bad and the ugly
31:20 ニャラリー
VCF Southwest is barreling down on us real fast, and none of my junk works, haha. Time to hunker down and start getting stuff over the finish line. The Mini-Centurion is specifically meant for shows and right now, it doesn’t have a hard drive. So, in this episode, we dive in deep to try to bring the old 14” Hawk drive that’s bolted to it back into the land of the living.
If you want to know more about the Centurion, the wiki is full of just about everything we know:
github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki
Come hang out with us at VCF Southwest:
vcfsw.org
Check out John’s shop, Kad Industries, here:
kadindustries.com
Check out Butler Tech here:
butlertech.org
If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon: patreon.com/usagielectric
Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale!
my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com
Come join us on Discord!
Discord: discord.gg/p7UsfHD
Intro Music adapted from: Artist:
The Runaway Five Title:
The Shinra Shuffle ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847
Thanks for watching!
Chapters
0:00 Carry on my wayward son…
5:56 Power supply shenanigans
12:30 Head cleaning and disk inspection
15:08 Loading the heads and failing to boot
18:18 What went wrong?
20:37 Repairing the drive and aligning the heads
26:14 Test drive
28:08 The good, the bad and the ugly
31:20 ニャラリー
