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

Pontus Pihlgren wrote of pederstal-mount PDP-8/Is: 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.-