A couple of weeks back, we swung by Butler Tech in Cincinnati to visit Mr. Hall, who heads the IT department there. In his department is a rare Centurion Desk System, and Mr. Hall actually let us bring the full card cage and one of the platters home, here to Texas, to back up. So, let’s get to doing that today! And of course, once it’s all safely backed up, let’s take a peek at what’s hiding out in the code.
For more on Butler Tech, check the link here:
https://www.butlertech.org/
Here's the Arduino code for the ROM reader:
https://github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/blob/main/Software/Nano_ROM_6439.ino
Centurion Wiki:
https://github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki
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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847
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Chapters
0:00 The Game Plan
4:09 Dumping the ROMs
5:04 Prepping the platter and drive
7:02 Testing and dumping the platter
12:12 Let’s try to boot this bad boy
15:26 Testing the CPU5 hardware
17:46 Booting the OS with the CPU5 hardware
19:54 Fixing the bootstrap ROM
21:23 Testing the bootstrap ROM and backplane
22:53 Testing the bootstrap ROM and backplane… again
25:03 Thank you Mr. Hall!
26:23 Donkusa-sue
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