KICKI: a DECsystem1060
The Internet Computer Museum is restoring KICKI, a rare dual-CPU DECsystem-1060 (PDP-10 KI10), upgrading its power supplies and restoring historic memory cabinets.
summary is enough The short build log offers a fun look at vintage mainframe hardware restoration, though it can be quickly skimmed.
summary
The Internet Computer Museum provides a progress update on the restoration of KICKI, a dual PDP-10 model KI10 system. The project involves modernizing the power supplies with high-efficiency switching units and integrating historic MH10 memory cabinets originally from MIT-MC. Recent work has successfully powered up the CPU bays and achieved console teletype output.
key points
- KICKI features a dual KI10 CPU setup with a complete module complement.
- Original linear power supplies are being bypassed with reversible modern switching modules to improve efficiency.
- The restoration incorporates MH10 memory cabinets and DF10C Data Channels formerly belonging to MIT-MC's DEC KL-10 system.
who should read it
Retrocomputing enthusiasts and mainframe preservationists will most appreciate the hardware restoration details.
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consensus
Commenters reminisce about the machine's history at Stacken, the computer club at KTH in Stockholm, and share nostalgia for vintage mainframes.
That's Peter's old machine! Used to be in the care of Stacken, the computer club at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. It's named Kicki because of the dual CPUs (KI KI). She had a sister named Katia ("a ten" in Swedish is "tia" and she had a KA CPU).
According to DEC you could only run one KI CPU, and then changed that when challenged to MAX two CPUs. So briefly she ran with three.
Provides historical context on the machine's origin at Stacken and explains the dual-CPU naming convention.
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