On Jul 30, 9:39, Bill Bradford wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Bill Pechter
wrote:
IIRC -- it's a modified Helvetica... The
original was pretty
much a kind of wood-cut block thing that looked more like
Futura then Helvetica. Then came the blue helvetica thing with
the squarish dots on the i's.
Then they paid big money for the maroon move and rounted i's.
Anybody know of a *computer* (e.g., Mac or PC, TrueType or such)
version of this font? This was my original reason for asking, and
I would *love* to be able to replace some of the logos on some of
my equipment that is old and peeling off.. Mostly the rounded
pdp11 logos.
There won't be a complete computer-based version of the font, because, like
most logos, it's been modified from a standard font, and only some of the
characters will have been created. The original is Futura, but the
ascenders and descenders are modified. If you want to see a PostScript
version of some logos, I did some a while back for
pdp11.org, and you can
find them at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/ as the pdp*.ps files.
The one called pdp11_34.ps is an accurate rendition of one from my 11/34,
though I can't recall whether I checked it against the panel or one of the
manuals (probably the manuals). I should have a d|i|g|i|t|a|l one
somewhere, too, but based on the later almost-Helvetica font.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York