KICKI: a DECsystem1060
KICKI is a dual PDP-10 model KI10 sn 522 and 606. While KICKI is current in preservation, we hope one day to have it running again. As of June 2025 former DEC LCG FE Gary Solomon has confirmed that both 522 and 606 CPUs have a complete module complement with the UML.
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September 2025
The power supply updates to bays 1 and 2 of the CPU have been completed and we have performed the first power up of those two bays together. Current draw is considerably much lower using the xcelsys modular switching supplies than the old DEC linear supplies. We completely by pass the old transformers, capacitors and full bridge rectifiers while leaving them in place and intact. https://toobnix.org/w/mZUSMmT9hGqWXXVWcSYptb
August 2025
Modern high efficiency switching supplies are bypassing the original 8 linear supplies in the CPU. This modification is completely reversible and makes use of original wiring and mounting points. Here you can see two supplies being mounted and wring in progress. With this modification the KI10 will take significantly less power to run.
May 2025
3 of some of the bespoke integrated circuits in the KI.
Just one minor nit: if this is a dual KI system, then the model number would be 1077. It must have started life as a single-CPU system (1060), to which they added the second CPU, which would have made it (in marketing-ese) a 1077.
What I can’t remember is whether or not KI10 systems ever supported SMP. Unfortunately none of the SIMH-based simulators (except for the forked Multics/Honeywell one) support multiple emulated CPUs, as far as I know.
Managed to find those neurons about DEC-10 SMP, which as it turns out was only supported on KL10s.
by the way – I find I have the following PDF files relevant to the KI-10:
1726931 Nov 17 2006 A_Document_On_The_KI10_Apr73.pdf
13794106 Aug 17 2006 KI10 Preliminary Processor Maintenance Manual_1972.pdf
18895268 Apr 7 2001 KI10 ProcMaintMan.pdf
55630947 Jun 25 2001 KI10 Schematics.pdf
If any of these are at all useful, contact me at the e-mail address to let me know and I’ll send them.