> It's a promotional picture, I'm guessing
this is just like the 8/I
> pedistal, a
> one-off that never sold.
Perhaps it was. A shame if so.
There is also the possibility that it never existed - just a model, an
empty box.
I can't speak to the 8/I specifically, but I have seen a pedestal-mount
PDP-11 - either an 11/40, or 11/45 - in the wild with my own eyes. It was
part of an early theatrical light-board controller, in Seattle's Opera
House some time during the '70s. I had a look at it during the mid-90s,
long after it was decommissioned, at the bottom of a long ramp wih other
assorted disused equipment (not to mention a supply of leaking sandbags).
I asked about it and was told the City was hanging onto it, the way they
did most of their retired equipment, "just in case".
One of my biggest regrets as a collector was that I didn't ask again about
it, or put a note on it, or something, since it was unceremoniously tossed
into a dumpster when they remodeled the building a few years later. I
found out too late, and even talked to one of my theatrical colleagues who
specifically remembered dumpstering it. Arrrrgh.
-O.-
