Awesome post, I learned something today. :)
...at his home in Connecticut...
The striated effect of the IBM logo reflects how characters looked on early (low resolution) computer screens. Not sure if that was deliberate, but I bet it was an influence.
Somewhere near Harwinton if my GPS kung fu skills are up to snuff.
I recently say the I/eye used in some other company's TV commercial.
3 letters, I something something, I forget what it was...but it was symbols like the eye/bee/M
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Send a PM with your address but no name so my wife doesn't get jealous and think I'm hitting on you.
She gave me her husbands name.
It's Mongo.
But Jaco is who I really like
Careful with that name, sir.
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Red badge of novelty
One final change made to the TrackPoint was suggested by Sapper. The tip of Selker's and Rutledge's pointing stick had been black, a color that got lost in the black ThinkPad keyboard. Sapper said, "Let it sing," and the tip was changed to red, which brought about a closing act of corporate silliness rivaled only by Abbott and Costello trying to decide who's on first.
Hardy explains: "IBM had a cherished standard which said that the only thing that could be red on a product was an emergency power switch, those enormous switches on the mainframes. To have the little TrackPoint tip subjected to this same standard was absurd, but, given the situation at IBM then, we knew the red dot wouldn't get through the system. So we toned it down a shade and called it magenta."
Soon afterward, Designer Yamazaki received a call from an IBM standards watchdog, who wanted to know why manufacturing had produced these tiny red parts.
Yamazaki said, "They're not red. They're magenta."
"No," replied the watchdog. "They're red."
The two men battled back and forth, then phoned Hardy to adjudicate the argument.
"They aren't red, they're magenta," Hardy assured the standards overseer, which led to a rambling, philosophical debate on the ontology of redness. Still, the watchdog held his position--no red allowed, not even if you called it magenta.
Hardy suggested that they take the argument to a higher level, confident that the watchdog would shrink from continuing such a trivial discussion with senior management. That was how it played out. The tip kept its magenta classification, and in the coming years, with the introduction of each new ThinkPad, the color of the rubber tip was increased a shade until it finally became a bright red symbol of the brand.
Sorry, no mug, mousemats, or THINK signs. Check Ebay for those.
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You'd think that people that want to see what's on reddit would, like, go on reddit?
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They took the house but not the Senate. I'm looking forward to 4 years of absolute jack **** happening.
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Rand Paul the evil mirror universe version of Paul Rand WINS!And in 2012, the Republicans are going to take the Presidency... despite having Nehemiah Scudder as their candidate.
Acronyms 101:
IBM = Italian Branch of Mafia