Hardware - Centurion - Miscellaneous

Centurion Business Computers (archive.org)

By Usagi Electric on YouTube:

• I Bought a Minicomputer from 1980! – Part 1
• Minicomputer Part 2: Removing the Drives
• Minicomputer Part 3: In-depth Look at the Power Supply
• Minicomputer Part 4: In-depth Look at all the Computer PCBs
• Minicomputer Part 5: Building an Arduino ROM Reader
• Minicomputer Part 6: Restoring the ADDS Data Terminals
• Minicomputer Part 7: Cleaning and Testing
• Minicomputer Part 8: Status Update and Unfortunate News
• Minicomputer Part 9: Reverse Engineering the Diagnostic Board
• Minicomputer Part 10: Will it Boot?
• Minicomputer Part 11: Running Real Centurion Code off the DIAG Card!
• Minicomputer Part 12: I Bought a What?!
• Minicomputer Part 13: Working on the Finch Drive
• Minicomputer Part 14: Spinning up the 1970’s 10MB Hard Drive!
• Minicomputer Part 15: We Found the Holy Grail!
• Minicomputer Part 16: Aligning the Heads on the CDC Hawk Drive
• Minicomputer Part 17: Welcome to the OS!
• Minicomputer Part 18: Restoring CDC 8” Floppy Drives
• Minicomputer Part 19: Troubleshooting the CDC 8” Floppy Drives (it did NOT go well)
• Minicomputer Part 20: Connecting the CDC 8” Floppy Drives to the Centurion
• Minicomputer Part 21: Prepping the OS for the Floppy and Finch
• Minicomputer Part 22: Working on the FFC and CDC Floppy Drive on 2022-10-24.
• Minicomputer Part 23: The CDC Floppy Drive Finally Works! on 2022-11-07.
• Minicomputer Part 24: Disaster with the Finch! on 2022-12-12.
• Reviving an 8-inch Hard Drive from the 1980’s! on 2023-08-06.
• Coding on a 1980s Business Minicomputer! on 2023-01-01.
• Building a “Miniature” Centurion Minicomputer (Part 1) on 2023-01-15.
• The Mini-Centurion Works! on 2023-01-22.
• Emulating the Vacuum Tube Computer on the Centurion Minicomputer on 2023-02-05.
• Exploring Rare Centurion History from the Co-founder! on 2023-02-20.
• Trying (and Failing) to Restore a 1970s CDC 10MB Hard Drive on 2023-02-27.
• Coding Assembly on a 1980s Business Minicomputer on 2023-03-05.
• The 1970s CDC Hard Drive Works! on 2023-03-12.
• Project Update on 2023-03-26.
• The Mini Centurion is Ready for VCF! on 2023-04-09 with FAQ after the first 15 minutes.
• VCF East 2023, Large Scale Systems Museum, and a New Centurion! on 2023-04-30.
• We Found a 2nd Centurion OS! on 2023-06-11.
• Working on a Rare Centurion MicroPlus! 2023-07-16.
• The Mini-Centurion is Back! on 2024-05-05. See also KAD Industries sheet metal fab and machine shop service.
• Assembly Programming is Hard… on 2024-06-09. Low level formatting a Hawk fixed HDD platter with own program written in assembly.
• To be continued…
• GitHub - Nakazoto/CenturionComputer the Centurion Wiki.
• GitHub - phire/centurion_isa Centurion Instruction Set Architecture.
• GitHub - agentorange96/CenturionAssembler An assembler for the Centurion mini computer.
• GitHub - tergav17/CPU7Plus A GUI-based emulator for the Centurion-series minicomputer.