Largely forgotten now, up until about 10 years ago your credit card transactions were probably processed on Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computers, despite the company disappearing in the 90’s. Started with Venture capital in the 50’s (creating the model for IT startups), by the 80’s they were 2nd only to IBM, turnover in the billions of dollars, unable to see that their decline had already begun. There’s a photo in
this potted history which I took the colour scheme from, they used to have 2 colour bars running across the front of their equipment.
They might have saved themselves; most of the 80’s computer whiz’s were inspired by DEC, according to
this source they could have been Google, and their last R&D project (before they got swallowed partly by Intel, then by Compaq (the acquisition which ruined Compaq!)) led to the first hard drive MP3 player, 2 years before the iPod, so they could have been Apple (if they’d hired Jony Ive
)
My livery imagines that DEC swerved their first great mis-step, and went all in on a RISC design in the 80’s, releasing their Alpha 64 bit processer in consumer products, and advertising on an IMSA car of the era. I was dismayed at the lack of American metal from the period in GT7, the C4 is the only representative from 1978-2002, then I widened it and perked up considerably
I tried to make the car look stretched and give it a touch of the square wide body look from the 80s (Integrale, Starion etc.), put a symbolic crack appearing on the front wing, and the hexagon was briefly a
design cue for DEC, their early computers had hexagonal CRT displays. I spent way too long getting the Alpha cat logo leaping on the pop up headlights, it’s such a pain you have to exit the editor to see moving parts, respect
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