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Competition results: Identify the characters on our cover

Each letter comes from a well known logo or font

Update, March 14th: The competition turned out to be more difficult than we expected. Nobody got all the answers correct. Two people came close though: commenters guest-nsijsis and u39b. The trickiest characters were 1 and 5, which come from the Enigma machine and the Gateway 2000 keyboard respectively. The correct answers are listed below.

This week, our cover leader and briefing look at the future of computing. The cover image takes its type, like a ransom note, from a variety of sources. Can you identify all of them? The first three people to get all the answers correct get a t-shirt from the Economist store—and also a mention on our website. Please submit your answers in the comments section, with the following format:

T: Enigma machine
H: iPhone keyboard
E: Apple external keyboard

F: Facebook logo
U: Gateway 2000 keyboard
T: Digital Equipment Corporation logo
U: Blackberry keyboard
R: MICR
E: Old Google logo

O: Old Apple logo
F: Fujitsu logo

C: Cisco logo
O: Space Invaders
M: IBM logo
P: Dot matrix
U: Macbook keyboard
T: Old Microsoft logo
I: Intel logo
N: Dell keyboard
G: iPad keyboard

Bonus: A cloud painting as the background

For a closer look at each character, please see below. The contest closes at noon on Monday, March 14th.