The Bendix G15 Boots!

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We did it! We did it! We did it! Kind of… It boots, and let me tell you, it was an absolute journey to get it to that point. But, it’s still not quite right. It’s trying to execute code, it’s just executing the wrong code. Still, with multiple bad germanium diodes and even a bad photodiode holding us up, it was an absolute battle to get to this point. But man alive was it worth it! Check out System Source here: https://museum.syssrc.com/ If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/usagielectric Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale! https://my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com Come join us on Discord! Discord: https://discord.gg/p7UsfHD Intro Music adapted from: Artist: The Runaway Five Title: The Shinra Shuffle https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847 Thanks for watching! Chapters 0:00 Who let me get my hands on a piece of history? 3:10 Cleaning the dirty motors 6:32 Giving them a test 7:10 Photodiode problems 9:26 Maybe it’s dirty potentiometers? 11:20 Nope. Okay, let’s learn how the phototape reader works 16:16 Bad photodiode. What next? 18:52 Did that fix it? 20:24 Not yet. Okay, let’s learn how the input system works 23:59 Troubleshooting montage! 32:46 Yoooo, that’s a booted machine! 35:22 Banana time!