Building an 'updated KI-10' 40+ years later

A word of warning. Some (much) of this is going to be technical to some degree. And, I am speaking of 'old' tech. My previous emails have been to a group of former co-workers who also worked on Dec-10's. While history, and the trials of making this happen will be here, it will be aimed at people who knew Dec-10's or were involved in computing back when a mainframe was made of thousands of small scale Integrated Ciruits(IC's) and filled big rooms. Today the processor inside my phone is 200 times faster, 500 times smaller and 1000 times cheaper.