On 2015-04-27 22:22, Johnny Eriksson wrote:
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
Just as a clarification/expansion...
KICKI was/is a KI-10 (sometimes 1, sometimes 2, and sometimes 3 cpus)
running in Stockholm many years ago. It is owned by Peter Lothberg, and
members of the Stacken Computer Club had accounts on the machine. KICKI
was running Tops-10 V7.03 last I know it was running.
Stacken is a computer club located at the Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm (KTH). KTH had many PDP-10 systems in the 80s, inclduing
some KS machines, some of which are still around.
Stacken, at one point, had gathered additional PDP-10s from various
places around the world, and might have had the largest collections of
PDP-10s anywhere. Most of been scrapped now, I think. Sad, but problems
with space...
Stacken and Peter broke up a long time ago. Let's just say that the
divorce was ugly. Peter got custody of most of the PDP10 stuff, and
it was moved to a storage facility of his. It might still be there,
I have no idea, and I am (still) not on speaking terms with him.
I know there was a fallout, and I was even around back then, but I was
not involved, and have no clue on details. (And I am still on speaking
terms with Peter.)
Anyway, I thought that Stackens machines had met a sadder fate, so I
guess it is good news if Peter have them.
A couple of KS machines was kept, and one of them was actually up and
running less than a year ago when the KTH CS department had its 50
year anniversary. (It was actually their first "real" computer).
Nice to hear they had it up and running. I was (somewhat) involved when
the other KSes moved out.
It is still hidden away somewhere, but there is at the moment no place
where it could be placed in running condition. It needs a good home.
Hmm. I hope it's ok for now. But if things turn critical, let me know. I
think I can round up some people to rescue things, if needed.
The last few of posts have all been referring to the same software. I
might even have some suspicions of at least some of the people who might
have been involved in writing that code.
It might be someone that's on this list, and shares his name with you :->
You were definitely on my short list, yes. ;-)
Johnny
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