Matching paint on DEC monitors, cases and cabinets

[Paul Koning]

> On Mar 22, 2019, at 7:23 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:26 AM Brian Roth via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone ever found a source for aerosol spray cans that are a close
>> matchto the colors that DEC used on their cases and such? I remember seeing
>> touch up colors mentioned in the past. Specifically the ivory/almond
>> colorof VT100's, DECservers, etc.
>> Brian
>> 
> 
> On the topic of DEC colors, FWIW,
> 
> A few years ago I took DEC STD 092 and attempted to converted the colors to
> RGB. You can take the conversions with a grain of salt, but the Color
> Specifications are from the standard.
> 
> http://www.chdickman.com/pdp8/DECcolors/

Nice.

What would also be interesting is a mapping from those obscure color specifications to Pantone color numbers.  That probably would address those "out of gamut" colors, for one thing.

	paul