20 Jan
2009
20 Jan
'09
11:57 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:31:57AM -0700, Bruce Ray wrote:
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>
Thanks for doing the research and shedding some light on it. I guess I
should have searched the archives beforehand as well. Your thread from
2001 was interesting:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2001-April/168654.html