Reviving a 1970’s Hard Drive for the Mini Centurion!

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: https://github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki Come hang out with us at VCF Southwest: https://www.vcfsw.org/ Check out John’s shop, Kad Industries, here: https://kadindustries.com/ Check out Butler Tech here: https://www.butlertech.org/ If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/usagielectric Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale! https://my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com Come join us on Discord! Discord: https://discord.gg/p7UsfHD Intro Music adapted from: Artist: The Runaway Five Title: The Shinra Shuffle https://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