Usagi Electric | Working on a Rare Centurion MicroPlus! @UsagiElectric | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 46 minutes ago.
About a month ago, I was made aware of a cool little place over in Knoxville, Tennessee called Vintage Geek, and they just so happened to have a Centurion MicroPlus with the iconic ADDS Regent 40 terminal in blue. Well, I just had to see the thing in person and Aaron was kind enough to let me come up and try to get the thing powered up! We made good progress but it wasn’t without its perils. Come along on the journey of trying to resurrect this rare old beast!

For more information on Vintage Geek, check out the website here:
vintagegeek.com

And their Youtube Channel here:
youtube.com/c/vintagegeek

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

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patreon.com/usagielectric

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

Thanks for watching!

Chapters
0:00 This is not the Centurion you’re looking for
1:00 Welcome to Vintage Geek!
3:07 What is the MicroPlus?
5:20 Working on the ADDS Regent 40
6:14 Moving over to the main chassis
7:34 The drive chassis
8:18 First power on attempt
10:50 Second power on attempt
12:41 Digging into the Finch drive
14:05 It couldn’t have been easy could it have?
16:41 Kome-san!