PDP10 Digital Equipment Corporation KA10 CPU

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I took this video on the last day of the KA10's operation on 6-Feb-1994. It was in constant use for over 25 years and was the last one still running in the world. I worked on it in the 1970's when I was a regional support engineer for Digital (the problem was with one of the MD10 memory banks to the left of the KA10). I had the honor of shutting it down for the last time. The CAD program shown in the middle of the video was written by Bryan Jensen, who makes an unexpected cameo appearance after the paper tape mishap! Bryan also maintained the KA10. Jim Kinsman • KA10 Serial # 46 TOPS-10 Penn State University, University Park, PA • Purchased in 1968/1969 time frame for use with EIA-680 Analog Computer for hybrid computation pair. The facility was the Hybrid Computation Lab which was part of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Penn State University Park campus. The system was located in the EE West building. The Hybrid Computer Lab was removed from the EE Department and became a College-wide facility named the Engineering Computer Lab which supported general computer operations in the College. At one time there was the DEC-10, DEC-2020, VAX 11/780, VAX 11/785, VAX 8550, Harris H800, and two IBM 4341 systems along with multiple VS3100 Workstations and assorted MicroVAX systems. When the centralized computing facility was phased out (CEDCC formed) in the 1995/1996 timeframe the DEC-10 and all other systems were scrapped. • Source: https://sites.google.com/site/mthomps...

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