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   ICM (icm@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 14:14:54 JST ICM

   This KL10 might just run again

   https://icm.museum/blog/?p=38

   This is MIT-MC.ARPA, currently in preservation. While it may not be necessary to run all of its subsystems, we might be able to bring up the 3 bay KL10 CPU and Front End processor and emulate the rest.

   We are evaluating it this summer. Would you like to help? Check out the blog and follow our activity.

   #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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     Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 14:14:53 JST Garrett Wollman

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     @icm So how did this machine end up in western Washington from its home in Cambridge? All of the PDP-10s were hauled out of NE43-901 in the late 1980s (I used to have the export license to send one of them to KTH in Sweden), obviously it's been floating around for a while. (And is the CM-2 in the collection the one that also used to be be in NE43-901, which was still there but unused until the big renovation ca. 1997? I think the NE43-250 CM-5 went to CHM in Mountain View.)

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     Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 14:15:31 JST Garrett Wollman

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     @icm The export license was in a file cabinet outside my office in NE43 until 2003, at which point I don't know what happened to it (I moved offices and the files didn't; we vacated the building shortly thereafter and the paperwork may have gone into the recycling). I didn't start work at LCS until 1994 so much of what I know is stories retold by those who came before.

     I know EECS kept their PDP-10 much longer, but I never used or saw it. There was less competition for space in 38 than NE43.

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     ICM (icm@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 14:15:32 JST ICM

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     • Garrett Wollman

     @wollman The KL 1080 was in Sweden until 2018. The CM-2 is not from MIT. Any information you have regarding MIT-MC would be great!

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