A Dual PDP-10 Named KICKI Is Being Brought Back to Life
Kicki: A DECsystem1060 – Interim Computer Museum
The Interim Computer Museum is restoring KICKI, a dual PDP-10 KI10 system with two CPUs (serial numbers 522 and 606). Former DEC field engineer Gary Solomon confirmed both CPUs have complete module complements. The museum has powered up the full KI10 CPU for the first time in years, replaced original linear power supplies with modern switching units for efficiency, and plans to use MIT-MC's memory cabinets to restore its 512KW memory.
In June we were able to complete the power modifications to Bay 3 which allowed us to power up the complete KI10 CPU for the first time in many years.
- mzi
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.
- ozymandiax
Incredible project! It would be amazing to have this machine up and running, I never thought that would even be possible. I wonder about your electricity bills though :-)
- DonHopkins
Nice to see they let MIT-MC outside to run in the sun. Free range mainframes are the happiest mainframes.
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