Front Panel Update - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Jun 2015

ONLY SOMETIMES...

remember Varian  also made scientific instruments that had   computers 
lasted to them and probably used   dec  when  they  were not making their own 
mini Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  

In a message dated 6/9/2015 2:46:50 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
bqt at update.uu.se writes:

On  2015-06-09 23:15, tony duell 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
...

 I am pretty sure I once saw a PDP8/e which was  absolutely normal  internally, but
where the front panel was
...
  green (as  were the switch handles) and it was badged
'Varian'. I don't  remember a  Digital logo on the
...
  front anywhere. 
WTF? Varian was a  competitor of DEC. They made minis themselves. Sounds 
extremely strange  that one would take a DEC mini, and put a Varian badge 
on it. Did someone  try to make a joke?

Johnny

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