m_thompson
Veteran Member
I recently bought a PiDP-10 from Oscar Vermeulen at: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp10. He also makes replica PDP-8/I and PDP-11/70 front panels. Oscar plans to make additional KA-10 display panels that will connect to the KA-10 console.
The PiDP-10 front panel is a 60% scale reproduction of a KA-10 front panel with a Raspberry Pi on the back. The Pi can see all of the switches and control all of the lights on the KA-10 panel through GPIO pins. The switches work like a real KA-10 so you can toggle in a program and single-step it or just run it.
Lars Brinkhoff is managing the software effort. His plan is to emulate everything that was in the MIT AI Lab. The PDP-6, KA-10, KI-10, KL-10, and KS-10 CPUs, as well as GT-40, Knight TV, IMLAC, Tektronix 4010, TV11, DEC Type 340 display emulators are all available from https://github.com/PDP-10/its. The package includes the ITS, TOPS-10, and TOPS-20 operating systems. You actually don't need the PiDP-10 from panel to run the software, but it is cool to see the blinking lights when it is running.
The PiDP-10 front panel is a 60% scale reproduction of a KA-10 front panel with a Raspberry Pi on the back. The Pi can see all of the switches and control all of the lights on the KA-10 panel through GPIO pins. The switches work like a real KA-10 so you can toggle in a program and single-step it or just run it.
Lars Brinkhoff is managing the software effort. His plan is to emulate everything that was in the MIT AI Lab. The PDP-6, KA-10, KI-10, KL-10, and KS-10 CPUs, as well as GT-40, Knight TV, IMLAC, Tektronix 4010, TV11, DEC Type 340 display emulators are all available from https://github.com/PDP-10/its. The package includes the ITS, TOPS-10, and TOPS-20 operating systems. You actually don't need the PiDP-10 from panel to run the software, but it is cool to see the blinking lights when it is running.