Reviving an 8-inch Hard Drive from the 1980’s!

This poor CDC Finch drive has had a tough life, and it’s putting up one heck of a fight in its journey back to operational. In this episode, we get elbow deep into the drive and try to bring it back up, with some amount of success followed by yet more failure. Such is life, but it sure is a lot of fun battling the electrons and magnetic flux!

Regarding the cone of shame:
About two months ago, our little girl Junko stepped on a rattlesnake that bit her twice in the leg. We rushed her to the vet immediately, they got anti-venom into her and it was touch and go for a few days as she fought venom, injury and infection, but she’s on the road to making a 100% recovery. The skin and tissue under the bites suffered heavy necrosis, so everyday for the past two months we’ve been cleaning the wound morning and night and it’s slowly healing up. She’s almost back to normal now!

For more information on the MicroPlus check the episode here:
   • Working on a Rare Centurion MicroPlus!  

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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
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Chapters
0:00 A brief look at the hard drives used by Centurion
4:45 What about our Finch?
6:08 What I think might be the problem
7:25 Replacing the SN75110
8:52 Testing the drive out
10:04 “That’s not good…”
11:51 Testing again
13:53 Checking the signals on the back directly
17:48 A different approach
19:33 What does the OS think of our Finch?
22:21 What did we find?
25:26 Broken again?!
27:43 Kitty!