9 Jul
2015
9 Jul
'15
4:32 a.m.
On Jul 9, 2015, at 12:00 AM, steven at malikoff.com
wrote:
Following the recent discussion here on the 'DEC logo' topic, I've been
mucking about with my own efforts to produce a replica PDP11 masthead panel for the DEC
H960 rack.
The idea is basically to make an SVG for a vinyl stencil which looks 'good
enough' until I can find an orignal one. I've drawn CAD (vectors and arcs only -
no splines)
over images I've found on the web, from scratch, without relying on the Batchelder
examples. So far the output is virtually complete but I need some help from the list,
if possible - I would like the dimensions of the width and height. I know it's larger
than a DEC filler panel. With thise I can adjust the drawing to the final size and
continue on the project.
As I need to mix a blurb with example images I've placed it under a blog entry on the
VCF board at
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/entry.php?544-A-good-enough-replica…
Please take a look, and thanks for any help or comments,
Two suggestions: the 7-block digital logo you can take from the PostScript file, that
would be the authority for this. I expect you?ll need splines for that, arcs aren?t good
enough. And for the other text, the ?Handbook? font I posted should be correct. (In
fact, if any part of it is off, I?d like to know so I can fix it.) It has both variants
of the ?t? in it (and for the ?f? as well). Yes, for that one, arcs will suffice.
paul