The Centurion MicroPlus Lives (Kind Of)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2023
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These collaborations are invaluable! Keep up the good work guys!
We'll get it there, and soon, we'll have multiple functioning Centurions spread across the country!
Grande Marco
The best intro ever done on any vintage channel. Usagi jump scare.
If only I could jump scare in the comments :P
@@UsagiElectric Gahh! I mean. Oh hey.
I like your set, it looks like an old computer shop.
Glad to see one more Centurion system coming back to life.
Thanks for the clutch save with the late phone call about the bootstrap ROM!
David Lovett is such an amazing guy! Really enjoyed meeting him in person at VCFSW and learning about all of his Centurion work. We have similar affinities for cars too!!
That RetroTechChris guy is an amazing dude too! :P
Hanging out and chatting Lexus and other luxury cars was an unexpected highlight of the event for me!
How, the hell, this channel is 3600 subscribers only. I wonder.
Yeah the good thing about shorts on low voltage dc is they tend to just pull down the voltage to almost nothing, rather than blow things up.
Glad you were able to connect, as they say the more, the merrier.
Dave "The Centurion Guy" literally stole the show here, haha! Lovettly collab, excellent episode, and great work on the Centurion.
I do tend to talk a lot, haha.
Thanks, I had a ton of fun on this one!
Great update, it’s cool that David flew out to work on your system.
It was a ton of fun working on the MicroPlus!
@@UsagiElectric I am unreasonably excited by the possibility of new software for the Centurion being found on Aaron’s drive.
@@JohnKiniston You and me both for sure! Who knows what's hiding out on both our Finch drives. I gotta get to work and get them both up and backed up!
As a big fan of Usagi Electric and as a fellow Knoxvillian to(and also fan of) Vintage Geek, this is my supergroup pairing!
It was my first time to Knoxville, and while I didn't get to see too much of the city, what I did get to see was really awesome, it's a nice cozy little city in a gorgeous part of the country!
This collaboration was spot on... excellent job!
Thanks!
I am a retro pc fan. greetings from Tunisia.
I just love this. Keep us updated!
Thanks! We'll definitely get this one going, and I'll make sure Aaron films an update video once we get it fully booting!
The world needs more Centurions. Someone needs to start selling an FPGA version that has a bus.
I am working on such
It nice to see a Centurion system coming back to life. I see a Zenith Data System clock back of the desk. I was a computer technician at Zenith Data System.
Awesome! We have a Zenith machine that will be the feature in an upcoming video so stay tuned!
Very, very cool to actually get to watch a video with David in it brand-new (more or less)! I'm doing my catch-up binge on the videos on his channel, so I'm very far behind!
I can't wait for this Centurion system to boot up properly! Once it's all fixed, it'll be lovely!
I just hope nothing gets mucked up!
Aaron, yours and his video about this project made my week. I always enjoy your videos, but seeing the two of you together on such a unique project is... well, I'll use the word epic. We're all into vintage after all 🤣
I have to wonder what David does for a living! Or did do. Sharp guy.
* if you'd rather not say, I understand and I'll just stay wondering! Been watching since the first Centurion videos. Thank you for many enjoyable Sundays.
Interestingly, not even remotely tech related. I went to school for language and was a Japanese to English technical translator in the automotive industry in Japan for many years. Did the same freelance here in the US when I moved back, but the pandemic found me with an overabundance of free time, so TH-cam kept me busy!
@@UsagiElectric Ok, you just blew my mind. Someone that is designing and building a computer out of vacuum tubes never went to college to be an electronic engineer. That is simply amazing.
Mostly just talk, but oh boy what an interesting back and forth. The future is bright.
I'm biased because I'm a massive TRS-80 fanboy... but I just love that terminal! Didn't know that even existed.... nice!
What an interesting machine!
Wish I could find things like this over here in the UK.
Super neat to see another Centurion after watching David's videos on his journey with his units. I look forward to seeing you both making progress with these neat systems. Also, definitely dig the 🎶 Keep up the awesome work 🙂
Thanks! We'll get this one going for sure!
Well, you both look happy! That's promising.
Nice collab! I'll be following this one. You have a new subscriber!
You ref. the MicroPlus was found in a storage unit in FL. in the video. Was the storage unit in the St.Pete-Tampa-Lakeland area or the Miami area? We had dealer (Scott Springier) in the Lakeland, FL and a dealer (Joe ?) in the Miami, FL area back in the early 1980s.
The storage unit was in the Lakeland area; however, I was told it was originally all storage from an independent radio shack dealer that may have been moved there from another part of the country…it’s hard to say for sure where this one originally came from.
Amazing Video !!!
I noticed the Visitel display you had in the background. I have one of those units. Would you be interested in it?
Everything was micro back then the buzz word of 1975 to 1985.
What about reducing it down to 4x FPGAs
これはとても興味深いです
Hmm...I thought the Wren needed a different controller. But if the FFC can run a Wren drive it should be able to work with any MFM ST506 interface drive.
The Wren drive came with several different interface boards. The original Wren had the same interface as a Finch drive, there were also ST506, ESDI and SCSI interface options on later variants.
Whiple references the movie War Games.
I thought it was WIPL. Warrex Initial Program Loader.
I think you might be thinking of WOPR.
In the early 1970s (about 10 years before WarGames released) when Centurion was first building machines, they would put an "Initial Program Loader" on track 0 of the drive. And, Centurion was initially named Warrex after its found John Rex Warren, so they combined "Warrex" and "Initial Program Loader" to make the WIPL.
I want a centurion mini mini, like the sega genesis mini.
This is actually something I'm working on!
Building a scale replica of the Centurion cabinet that can sit on your desk, plug into a real terminal or a USB keyboard and HDMI monitor, and has a full emulation of the hardware inside with software pre-installed. No clue when it'll get there, we're still in the planning stages, but it is in the works!
@@UsagiElectric If only there was a way to mass produce that sexy CRT Terminal with the Centurion logo and color. I would use it with my Linux EMACS.
@@UsagiElectric OMG that would be amazing!!!!
Centurion business computer website is still up. Huh.
The Centurion web site in San Ant, TX was a sister office back in 1975-1976 then the people in the office became one of the early Centurion dealers. The web site in San, TX has been dead for years and the owner Bobby F. passed away years ago.
@@kenromaine2387 Someone should go out there and see if they can get the system, so it can also be a website for things like archive for the centurion.
whee. :)
What's the bet it's caps in both drives taking down psu lines?
Stop the background music!
that music is terrible in the beginning interview, are you making us mad or what?