Ted Leung on the air : Obsolete Software T-Shirt Day

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Thu, 16 Jun 2005

Today is Obsolete Software T-Shirt Day in the OSAF Offices. Those of us who work remotely are posting photographs (although I'm breaking the rules by not posing in my shirt(s). The advantage is that you get to see three T-Shirts instead of one.

First up: The T-Shirt Commemorating the closure of Apple's Cambridge Research Lab, and the termination of the Dylan project. Dylan is one of the promising languages that Java killed.

Front of Dylan Shirt

"The power to cancel your very best"

Back of Dylan Shirt

"Are you sure you want to cancel the entire Cambridge lab?"

The next T-shirt commemorates the occasion of Apple and HP bailing out of Taligent, leaving IBM with all the goodies.

The Taligent logo

Back of Taligent shirt

"Top Ten Reasons I Stayed at Taligent"

The last T-Shirt celebrated the spin off of Apple's Newton Systems Group into a separate company. The celebration was short lived, as Steve Jobs yanked us right back into Apple and then killed us. But at least Powerbooks are now fast at going to sleep and waking up...

Front of Newton, Inc. Shirt

"Newton, Inc."

(My apologies for the poor photography)

[00:31] | [computers] | # | TB | F | G | 6 Comments |

Oh man, I shoulda thought of posting all of our sentimental tshirts! We just got rid of about four boxes of stuff, mostly old Adobe shirts, but also things like the third WWW conference shirts, old Unicode conference shirts, etc.
Posted by Ducky at Thu Jun 16 12:39:26 2005

Awesome, awesome collection Ted! I'd pay dearly for that "power to cancel your very best" shirt :-).
Posted by Buzz Andersen at Thu Jun 16 22:01:07 2005

Every company has something like that. Remember, when Borland bought dBase, just to kill its own Paradox engine (and dBase shortly thereafter)? Later, they open-sourced Interbase and closed it again after a year or two.
I try hard to not conclude that all big software companies suck. ;)
Posted by zgoda at Fri Jun 17 01:59:52 2005

Awesome. The Cambridge lab one is hilarious to me, for completely different reasons. I've worked at Lotus in our Cambridge buildings (3 of the 5 major ones here) for over a decade; two of those three have now been closed. On a smaller scale, a specific lab I've worked at in Cambridge was also closed, so I can definitely relate. Can't remember where I put that 1-2-3/G t-shirt...
Posted by Shane Curcuru at Fri Jun 17 10:35:47 2005

Hey, I have that same Dylan T-shirt too. Somewhere.
Posted by Jamie McCarthy at Thu Jun 23 09:39:38 2005

Excellent collection Ted. Keep it up!
Posted by Mary at Sat Jul 2 00:31:15 2005

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