29 Jun
2015
29 Jun
'15
12:54 a.m.
the front of the internal bus options maintenance manual in front of me.
But looking at the f in 8/f gives me the impression they mixed some
fonts for the logo and taking a closer look at the line:
"digital equipment corporation . maynard. massachusetts"
is proving both of us wrong. the y in maynard is a rounded version, but
both futura and avant garde hve a straight y.
"...the search continues..."
On 29-06-15 04:50, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-06-28 10:12 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
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Simon Claessen
drukknop.nl
On 2015-06-28 6:34 PM, simon wrote:
Oops, I was looking at the vertical d e c when I said that.
The font used in the "industrial11" logo and across the PDP-8 range, has
been pinned down to the "New York" style of "Chalet"; here's a
revival:
http://www.houseind.com/fonts/chalet/viewfonts
But I can't find a "pdp8" image in the thread. Simon, what image are you
referring to that leads you to say Futura Bold?
--Toby
It seems to me that pdp8 is written in futura
bold
ITC Avant Garde would probably be closer. (released circa 1970)
Avant Garde was used in a LOT of DEC's marketing -- it was the signature
face for VAX-11, for example (even the machine badges use Avant Garde).
--Toby
On 28-06-15 18:52, Chris Osborn wrote:
On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:20 AM, Chris Osborn
<fozztexx at fozztexx.com>
wrote:
> "The logo up to then had been the letters DEC in blocks the
> shape of
> the plug-in cards that DEC had been producing."
>
> Does anyone have a picture of that? My Google-fu is failing me. I
> love cutting vinyl stickers of old logos and I think an original DEC
> logo would make a great prize in the contests I run on
> RetroBattlestations.
I did my best to recreate the plug-in card DEC logo, you can download
it as an SVG here:
http://www.retrobattlestations.com/DEC/DEC-1957-3.7x4.5.svg
Proportions probably aren?t perfect since all I had to work from was
very low resolution pictures of the original. I?m happy to send out
vinyl cut decals to anyone that wants one if you send me a SASE. Email
me privately for my address.
http://i.imgur.com/HJki7WI.jpg (Atari 2600 cartridge for scale)
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