Software Problems? Hardware Solutions!

VCF Southwest is barreling down on us real fast, and some of my junk works, haha. The CDC hawk drive is almost there, only it’s giving us even more grief now and the data terminal takes a dirt nap everytime we throw data at it. Let’s see if we can coax some of this stuff back into life enough for the event! 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/ 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 A funny story! 1:41 Alright, what’s broken now? 6:39 Swapping heads like it’s Frankenstein’s monster 9:25 Taking it for a test drive 12:10 Shady business practices striking 40 years later 15:33 Finally getting to the data terminal 16:59 Comparing the Regent 100 and Regent 200 19:38 It couldn’t have been easy, could it have? 22:17 Shifting gears and digging into the MUX card 24:45 Building and testing the daughter board 29:01 Hacky hardware solutions! 31:26 Koma!