9 Jun
2015
9 Jun
'15
10:50 a.m.
There was a letter that went to a large terminals digital oem in about
1975 stating as below as being the position.
Guess who signed the letter? I''ll give you a hint. It wasn't Ken Olsen!
On 09/06/2015 15:30, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jun 9,
2015, at 3:58 AM, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
DEC was very keen on its OEM business and if the order was big enough would allow some
variation in colours but would not allow the dec logo to be removed or changed.
I?m
not sure if that?s completely true. I remember a PDP11 (11/45 probably) at the University
of Illinois, around 1975. It was used as a terminal controller for ARPAnet. The system
was called ANTS (not sure what that stands for), and it had a custom logo panel for the
top of the H960 racks, in red and yellow, showing large ants crawling all along the
cabinets.
Not allowing the logo to be changed would make sense, since that is one of the rules of
trademarks: you risk losing a trademark if you don?t use it consistently, for example if
you create or allow variations of what was registered.
paul