Working on a Rare Centurion MicroPlus!
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: https://vintagegeek.com/ And their Youtube Channel here: / vintagegeek Centurion Wiki: https://github.com/Nakazoto/Centurion... If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon: / usagielectric Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale! https://my-store-11554688.creator-spr... Come join us on Discord and Twitter! Discord: / discord Twitter: / usagielectric Intro Music adapted from: Artist: The Runaway Five Title: The Shinra Shuffle https://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!
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