11/23 or 11/03 picture of DEC/PDP logo

Wai-Sun Chia waisun.chia at hp.com
Thu Sep 9 00:03:15 CDT 2004


Megan wrote:
>>>BA11-M (11/03) DEC/PDP logo in glorious DEC maroon:
>>>http://hampage.hu/pdp-11/kepek/pdp1103.jpg
> 
> 
>>That doesn't look original to me.
> 
> 
> It is... but a later version of the panel.  You can tell by
> the inset screws at the ends of the panel.  I also have one
> in storage at the moment...
> 

Hah! Now I can be assured that DEC engineers do have/did had a sense of 
aesthetics! :-)

What do the inset screws hold?

> 
>>>http://www.shiresoft.com/pdp-11/11-23/11-23-front-panel.jpg
> 
> 
>>That's simply the result of a colour cast in a badly lit/badly exposed
>>photo, probably taken under tungsten lighting.  It looks just like mine
>>except for the cast; mine is plain DEC grey with a black and white
>>sticker.
> 
> 
> This looks like several I saw at DEC, and I think I have one
> myself.  It is a sticker on a flat panel, not embossed one.

Any versions of the logo that is colored _AND_ embossed?

/wai-sun



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