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by mmooss 591 days ago
Thanks for the video. Not to take away from it , but the accompanying article includes,

"There is nothing about the IBM symbol, for example, that suggests computers, except what the viewer reads into it. Stripes are now associated with computers because the initials of a great computer company happen to be striped."

Don't the 'stripes' in the IBM logo reflect a video display technology, such as CRT, with an electron gun refreshing in horizontal lines? I assumed the low resolution of the logo's stripes reflected the resolution - and therefore the text appearance - that people were used to seeing on computer screens at the time.