Was that in the "Astromony building" on Goodwin located next to CSL?
It was not on contract with us, at least not very often. I worked on it several times. It had 2 DB11- unibus repeaters on it, and was supposedly the longest bus ever. Paul On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On Jun 9, 2015, at 3:58 AM, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> > 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 1975. It was used as a > terminal controller for ARPAnet. The system was called ANTS (not sure what > that stands for), and it had a custom logo panel for the top of the H960 > racks, in red and yellow, showing large ants crawling all along the > cabinets. > > Not allowing the logo to be changed would make sense, since that is one of > the rules of trademarks: you risk losing a trademark if you don’t use it > consistently, for example if you create or allow variations of what was > registered. > > paul > > >
