20 Jan
2009
20 Jan
'09
9:54 a.m.
Pontus Pihlgren wrote of pederstal-mount PDP-8/Is:
The question remains though, has anyone seen it in the
wild? What was it
used for?
Not the 8/I, or indeed amy member of the -8 series; but I have seen a
pedestal-mount PDP-11 in the wild - most likely an 11/40 or 11/45 -
which was used as a controller for an early theatrical lighting control
board. It was in the Opera House in Seattle, and was long since retired
when I came across it in the 1990s.
Alas, it was destroyed a few years later during a building remodel. I
wish I'd had the forethought to go after it. :/
-O.-