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!
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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 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!