National Semiconductor logo

[N Cook]

Anyone know when it changed to eg
http://swe-goldenwest.org/scvs/www/images/corp/natsemi2.gif
from the older double squiggle one
eg
http://www.eyesurf.co.uk/~nutteing/logo3h.jpg
number 328

 

[N Cook]

Anyone know when it changed to eg
http://swe-goldenwest.org/scvs/www/images/corp/natsemi2.gif
from the older double squiggle one
eg
http://www.eyesurf.co.uk/~nutteing/logo3h.jpg
number 328

Sometime between 1990 and 1997, can anyone narrow down closer ?

 

[N Cook]

Sometime between 1990 and 1997, can anyone narrow down closer ?

The first wayback page pushes it back to 1996
http://web.archive.org/web/19961019051504/http://www.national.com/index.html

 

[Meat Plow]

Sometime between 1990 and 1997, can anyone narrow down closer ?

July of 1994.

http://www.national.com/appinfo/milaero/CompliancyMarking.html

 

[isw]

Anyone know when it changed to eg
http://swe-goldenwest.org/scvs/www/images/corp/natsemi2.gif
from the older double squiggle one
eg
http://www.eyesurf.co.uk/~nutteing/logo3h.jpg
number 328

Anybody remember what it was before that "older" one, and when that one
was dropped?

Isaac

 

[N Cook]

Anybody remember what it was before that "older" one, and when that one
was dropped?

Isaac

the earliest NS databook I have is 1976 and that has the double S/N squiggle

 

[N Cook]

July of 1994.

http://www.national.com/appinfo/milaero/CompliancyMarking.html

an impressive bit of detective work, thanks

 

[Meat Plow]

an impressive bit of detective work, thanks

Easy enough using google and the right key words

 

[isw]

the earliest NS databook I have is 1976 and that has the double S/N squiggle

Back in the '60's, until (I don't remember), it was a pair of angular
block letter "N"s, one upright "N", the other on its side "S". sort of
like the wonderful "SUN" logo.

Isaac

 

[N Cook]

squiggle

Back in the '60's, until (I don't remember), it was a pair of angular
block letter "N"s, one upright "N", the other on its side "S". sort of
like the wonderful "SUN" logo.

Isaac

like on this pic of a memory MM1103N of 1973 ?

http://www.cpu-museum.com/Bilder/NatSem-MM1103N_1.jpg

 

[isw]

like on this pic of a memory MM1103N of 1973 ?

http://www.cpu-museum.com/Bilder/NatSem-MM1103N_1.jpg

Yup. I don't know when they abandoned it.

Isaac

 

[Ross Herbert]

Anyone know when it changed to eg
http://swe-goldenwest.org/scvs/www/images/corp/natsemi2.gif
from the older double squiggle one
eg
http://www.eyesurf.co.uk/~nutteing/logo3h.jpg
number 328

My impression is that the logo changed from the old horizontal
parallel S squiggle to the new stylised N, sometime after mid 1994,
just over mid-way through the tenure of CEO Gil Amelio.

This photo June '94 4004 device shows the old logo
http://www.cpuphotolibrary.com/img1479.htm

 

[Ross Herbert]

My impression is that the logo changed from the old horizontal
parallel S squiggle to the new stylised N, sometime after mid 1994,
just over mid-way through the tenure of CEO Gil Amelio.

This photo June '94 4004 device shows the old logo
http://www.cpuphotolibrary.com/img1479.htm

Actually, it seems that the old logo may be called the "Stacked N"
trade mark and the new one is the "Stylized N" Worldmark.
http://www.national.com/webteam/trademark.html

 

[Ross Herbert]

My impression is that the logo changed from the old horizontal
parallel S squiggle to the new stylised N, sometime after mid 1994,
just over mid-way through the tenure of CEO Gil Amelio.

This photo June '94 4004 device shows the old logo
http://www.cpuphotolibrary.com/img1479.htm

It seems that the first use of the Stylized N by National
Semiconductor may have been in June 1994.
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=pt038r.5.85

The official filing date for the trademark is Feb 15, 1996.