30 Jul
2001
30 Jul
'01
3:53 a.m.
Cameron:
I can check tonight. I did a PDP logo by hand for my Web site using
MS Paint. It's a sans serif font, but not Arial or Helvetica. It's not
Lucida, either.
Now, I don't know if this is the actual name of the font used (if
you ask a DEC person), but it's indistinguishable.
Rich
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Kaiser [mailto:spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 12:57 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Font used in d|i|g|i|t|a|l logo?
Anybody know the font used in the d|i|g|i|t|a|l logo,
and
on the old pdp logos and rack header plates?
The PDP plates and logos, dunno, but I'm pretty sure the digital logo
was Futura or some analogue.
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30 Jul
30 Jul
5:09 a.m.
Cameron:
I can check tonight. I did a PDP logo by hand for my Web site using
MS Paint. It's a sans serif font, but not Arial or Helvetica. It's not
Lucida, either.
Now, I don't know if this is the actual name of the font used (if
you ask a DEC person), but it's indistinguishable.
Rich
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.
Bill
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5:39 a.m.
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.
Bill
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