Will This Rare 1980s HDD Live Long Enough to Save the Data?

A little while back, we ventured out to Tennessee to visit a cool little Museum called Vintage Geek. It was an epic trip, but the main reason for the journey was to see the very cool Centurion MicroPlus that Aaron had. We couldn’t get it up and going in that episode, so the Finch drive, which should have all sorts of cool stuff on it, came back with me to hopefully rescue the data on it using my big boy Centurion. The drive is wounded and unhappy, but will it play ball long enough to save the data? Let’s find out together! For more information on Vintage Geek, check out the website here: https://vintagegeek.com/ And their Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/vintagegeek Centurion Wiki: https://github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki 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 and Twitter! Discord: https://discord.gg/p7UsfHD Twitter: https://twitter.com/UsagiElectric Intro Music adapted from: Artist: The Runaway Five Title: The Shinra Shuffle https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847 Thanks for watching! Chapters 0:00 Where we are and where we’re going 2:00 The Vintage Geek Finch 4:28 Finding the short 6:50 Wiring in power 8:09 Making room for the new data 11.36 Preparing the OS 13:14 She’s very much so not healthy 16:04 Let’s try to load the heads 18:33 Swapping PCBs 21:10 Welcome to troubleshooting purgatory 23:38 Victory? 26:43 Hah, there’s no victories here! 27:44 Down but not out 31:01 Victory! (For real this time!) 33:23 Let’s take a second, and wrap our heads around what just went down 36:45 Sue!