{"id":30,"date":"2025-06-08T02:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:41:51","slug":"centurion-computer-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Centurion Computer Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2826-Large-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" style=\"width:476px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2826-Large-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2826-Large-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2826-Large-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2826-Large.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"white-space: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium;\">The Centurion Computer Corporation CPU-6 was a mid-1970s minicomputer designed primarily for industrial control, data acquisition, and real-time processing applications. Built using TTL logic and early LSI components, the CPU-6 featured a 16-bit architecture with a relatively fast instruction cycle for its time, often under 2 microseconds. It supported both fixed-point and limited floating-point arithmetic and had a robust interrupt structure suitable for interfacing with a wide array of peripherals. The system was commonly deployed in laboratories, manufacturing environments, and academic settings where reliability and deterministic performance were essential. Though never achieving the market penetration of systems from DEC or Data General, the CPU-6 carved a niche among engineers and institutions seeking a dependable and customizable computing platform.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2829-Large-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32\" style=\"width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2829-Large-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2829-Large-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2829-Large-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2829-Large.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A very cool Centurion keychain.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2828-Large-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2828-Large-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2828-Large-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2828-Large-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2828-Large.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Centurion badged ADDS Regent 100 terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2831-Large-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2831-Large-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2831-Large-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2831-Large-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2831-Large.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Centurion featuring the CDC Phoenix drive.  This we know:  It isn&#8217;t crashed.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2856-Large-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" style=\"width:380px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2856-Large-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2856-Large-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2856-Large-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2856-Large-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2856-Large.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2857-Large-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36\" style=\"width:427px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2857-Large-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2857-Large-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2857-Large-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2857-Large-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/icm.museum\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2857-Large.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our Centurion came configured with 24 serial ports.  We have yet to understand why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centurion Computer Corporation CPU-6 was a mid-1970s minicomputer designed primarily for industrial control, data acquisition, and real-time processing applications. Built using TTL logic and early LSI components, the CPU-6 featured a 16-bit architecture with a relatively fast instruction cycle for its time, often under 2 microseconds. 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