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breput 439 days ago | parent | on: Welcome to the Centurion Computer wiki!
The Usagi Electric YouTube channel[0] has a long history of restoring and working with Centurion computers.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnw98JPyObn0wJFdbcRDP...
breput 541 days ago | parent | on: The best type-in I ever typed in: Crossroads, for ...
> Every ninth hexadecimal number was a checksum byte. So you actually had to type in more like 6,700 two-character sequences, but those checksum bytes let MLX alert you if you’d made a mistake in the last eight digits.
The crazy thing is that the checksum was a late addition to the type-in process. It used to be even harder!
- dfarquhar 540 days ago
  Indeed it was. Without the checksums, there was a good bet you'd make a mistake and the program wouldn't work. If you know, you know.
  - qingcharles 538 days ago
    Oh, I know :( :(
    10 pages of hex... execute it... instant reboot lol