At Sun there was a salesperson, formerly of DEC, who had been taught, in DEC salestraining, that PDP (as in PDP-11/70) stood for “Pink and Dark Purple”, so they

At Sun there was a salesperson, formerly of DEC, who had been taught, in DEC salestraining, that PDP (as in PDP-11/70) stood for “Pink and Dark Purple”, so they could recognize their machines in the lab.