[AccessD] This has nothing to do with Access

[Martin]

The *slanted* “*E*” symbolized Michael *Dell's* wish to “turn the world on
its ear”. The logo was created in 1984, after becoming popular and a
household *name*.

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, 14:58 Arthur Fuller, <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:

> But it's the place where my friends hang out, so I thought to post this
> question here.
> Why is the E on the DELL name slanted? Is it supposed to suggest a power
> cable? When was the last time you spotted one of those?
> Recently I fired up the second oldest of my machines -- an HP Millenium
> hosting Windows 7 with 4GB of RAM and a pair of hard disk drives, one 200GB
> and the other 500GB/ Hell. now I could dust them both and get a 2TB drive
> for almost less than I'd spend on dinner across the road (hmmm.. Conspiracy
> you say? Nah, they would even conceive that I might need something to do
> while waiting for the repair person to do her duty
> So why is the E in DELL slanted?).
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