20 Jan
2009
20 Jan
'09
9:31 a.m.
Both pictures of the pedestal-mount PDP-8/I were taken from my
www.NovasAreForever.com web site, and are from a DEC brochure that
introduced the PDP-8/i in 1968. I scanned the brochure after it received
water/sewage damage, but had to tear out some of the front paper as it too
damaged to be retained. (That is why the bottom right is ragged.)
I have asked numerous DEC people if they have seen this marketing design,
and nobody that I have talked to has seen one.
Data General had a similar "pedestal mounted" Nova - which won an industrial
design award. Only two were made for the marketing department, and neither
have been seen since 1969. I keep searching, however. <sigh>
Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc.
www.NovasAreForever.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pontus Pihlgren" <pontus at Update.UU.SE>
To: <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 06:23 AM
Subject: Re: Odd PDP-8/I
I sort of found an answer here. The pedestal version is
mentioned in
the pdp-8 faq:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/pdp8-models/section-5.html
Also there are pictures in the maintenance manual:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/pdp8i/DEC-8I-HR1A-D_8Imaint_Mar70.pdf
Was this part of DEC marketing the PDP-8 as cute? it sure is :)
The question remains though, has anyone seen it in the wild? What was it
used for?
/P
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:44:08PM +0100, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
Hi
In one of the computer clubs books there is a drawn picture of an odd
PDP-8/I. A bit of googling gave this:
http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/windowslivewriterpdp8is-2c…
(Same picture, but bigger: )
http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/windowslivewriterpdp8is-2c…
Has anyone seen it in the wild, its a pretty wierd form factor, reminds
me about the H316 Kitchen computer.
Cheers,
Pontus
