[coldtea]

>would that logo look good scaled down on a computer display from 1986? No. It is objectively bad.

BS, it looked just fine:

http://www.osdata.com/system/ui/screens/next.jpg

And in fact he printed it in various scales (large to tiny), in both color and black and white, to show how it still looked identifiable and good (not shown properly in TFA, you can find the design studies with the various sizes on the web easily, its part of the same document).