Interesting fact about the PDP-8/S, which was the horrendously slow serial version.

It was supposedly the first computer sold to a private individual instead of business or academia. The purchaser was composer Peter Zinovieff, who used it in the electronic music studio he was building in his home. He paid for it by pawning his (aristocratic) wife's tiara. (They later divorced.)

Here it is in the racks at the back, next to a PDP-8/I which he bought later, and some of the synths and other products the company he created started selling soon after.

https://historyofinformation.com/images/Screen_Shot_2020-09-...

This was 1971. Computer control of analog synths, sampling, and video-to-sound with real time FFTs (from additional hardware) were years ahead of what Rest of World was doing then.