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Correct title: “According to DEC” (stands for “Digital Equipment Corporation”).
by drfuchs 6y ago
Correct title: “According to DEC” (stands for “Digital Equipment Corporation”).
- masswerk 6y agoYes, this may be a bit irritating. I actually failed to recognize my own article in the list. :-)
- dcminter 6y agoI submitted as 'DEC' but unfortunately there's some automangling on headlines - presumably to avoid shrieking all-caps ones. @dang might be able to rectify it...? Anyway, thanks for the article - it was an interesting read that I stumbled upon while wondering-via-google what fonts the DEC manuals were printed with.
- masswerk 6y agoThanks for liking it. Admittedly, at first, I didn't know, if this would make a story at all, but decided to do the writeup anyway. So everyone enjoying it is decidedly a win.
- dcminter 6y agoIt's the kind of thing I'd love to see more of here. Err more on the side of submitting maybe? I am a little bit nostalgic about DEC stuff from college years working on projects in rooms full of VT220s connected to a small cluster. There's an advert on the local (Stockholm, Sweden) listings currently for a VaxStation and it's oh so tempting to pick it up and have a play with VMS again!
- masswerk 6y agoBTW, regarding the font used in DEC manual, I've been looking for this as well, to not much avail. I think, the print on the control panels of the early machines is Neuzeit S, if this is of any help.