Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 7:58 PM
Subject: One is an urge to again work on a KI-10
OK, My obsession is changing.
I now am thinking about building one. Not a copy, but a
functional equivalent. Since I am not Paul Allen, I don’t think I could buy
one.
Even at the time, I knew working on it that it was bigger
than it needed to be. The design process took time(years) , and Dec was always
conservative in using new technology, so they did not use the most complex TTL
chips.
I think I could do a ‘desk sized’ unit for a few (ok a
high few) thousand dollars.
I am in vacation in Mexico right now, but it’s raining
and there is nothing else to do in my casita…
Could take me a couple of years. Maybe more if the brain
deteriorates…
Gary
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:09 AM
Subject: There are several things that keep coming back to me.
Subject: There are several things that keep coming back to me.
One is an
urge to again work on a KI-10
I’ve said before
and I’ll say again. I think the KI was the coolest ever.
It looked cool. You
could clock tick by clock tick run stuff through registers, etc.
So there is a place
that has purchased and rebuilt one. (OK I dream of that…)
In their words:
OPEN TO VIEW
Visitors are encouraged to come see and
experience this 35-year-old machine that has been restored back to its original
glory. The KI is a fantastic piece of engineering that was never replicated. It
was a joy to use with its advanced virtual memory operating system, and for
those who maintained them, they were a sight to behold with perhaps the most
amazing control panel ever built for a computer system.
If you follow the article, you will be
amused by the picture of the gentlemen working on the system.
Bummer is, it’s in
Seattle, which I have never had a desire to visit.
Living Computer Museum
2245 First Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
Seattle, WA 98134
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