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Usagi Electric | VCF East 2023, Large Scale Systems Museum, and a New Centurion! @UsagiElectric | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
This is it, let’s take one of the most epic vintage computing road trips out there! We hit up VCF East in New Jersey, the Large Scale Systems Museum in Pittsburgh, and even come across a desk system Centurion in Cincinnati. It’s an awesome drive!

Seriously guys, go check out my brother’s shop!
lovettsundries.com

If you’re interested in VCF, check this link:
vcfed.org

Check out Fran’s copy of the talk here:
youtu.be/2EaSxGMFabI

The VCF version should go up here:
youtube.com/@vcfederation

Check out Sean at Action Retro here:
youtube.com/@ActionRetro

Check out Hackaday's interview of Andy Geppert here:
youtu.be/T6DJe3OEzp8

Special thanks for 2000danlb for the video:
youtu.be/xA73qZ3JF9c

Special thanks to CommodoreZ for the photos:
(And so much more, Z has been absolutely wonderful!)
commodorez.com

If you're in the area, go see the Large Scale Systems Museum:
mact.io

Special shoutout to Mr. Hall and Butler Tech for the awesome day with the Centurion:
butlertech.org

Special thanks to Ben Prunty for the music from his album Chromatic T-Rex:
benpruntymusic.com
benprunty.bandcamp.com

Centurion Wiki:
github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki

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 and Twitter!

Discord: discord.gg/p7UsfHD
Twitter: twitter.com/UsagiElectric

Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847

Thanks for watching!

Chapters
0:00 Let’s hit the road
3:47 Welcome to VCF!
5:26 VCF East Day 1
6:15 VCF East Days 2 and 3
9:59 Highlights of the show
12:13 A close look at an Altos setup
13:44 A close look at John’s Model 15 TTY
16:00 The Large Scale Systems Museum
20:03 A wild Centurion Desk System appears!
24:47 That would have been the end of it… but!
27:39 Thank you all so much for an amazing trip
28:58 Kitty!
VCF East 2023, Large Scale Systems Museum, and a New Centurion!Doing Carburetor Work on the Austin Healey 3000Vacuum Tube Computer P.30 – Connecting 2-bytes of Tube RAM to the ProcessorThe Bendix G15 (Almost) Roars into Life!This Data Terminal was Covered in Poop!Will This Rare 1980s HDD Live Long Enough to Save the Data?Vacuum Tube Computer P.29 – Addressing and Fanout ProblemsReverse Engineering Bendix G-20 Mainframe CardsHellorld!Restoring an HP-120B Oscilloscope from 1961!Vacuum Tube Computer P.24 – Building SR Flip Flops with Trial and ErrorReviving an 8-inch Hard Drive from the 1980’s!

VCF East 2023, Large Scale Systems Museum, and a New Centurion! @UsagiElectric

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