12 May
2013
12 May
'13
12:02 p.m.
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 06:53:17PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
My guess is that the label is not orignal. Either
somebody has made it up
appreciating the joke, or it was an advertising gimmick used to promote
either the PDP8/e or a rival machien (as it 'This is what DEC's bus rally
is'
You can see the original logo peeking around the Omnibus one in the photo, so
whoever did it, it probably wasn't the Matchbox people. It'd be a cute piece
of swag though, so it makes sense that DEC would buy a bunch and add their own
stickers.
I had a similar bus as a kid. (No PDP-8/E logo though!) I forget whether
it was a Matchbox or a Corgi, but the quality was nice -- with flexible axles
that acted as a suspension.
John