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March 16, 2006

T-Shirt: More RAM Than Apollo Thirteen

Tonight, I finalized a t-shirt design I'd thought of about a year ago, featuring a super-stylized illustration of an old Pilot 1000 with humorous sayings on the screen in an old-school bit-mapped font.

For the first shirt in this line, I've chosen the saying "More RAM Than Apollo Thirteen" because the humorous reality of that phrase has always made me smile. Yes, it is actually true — Apollo Thirteen only had 32k onboard RAM, while the Pilot 1000 had 128k. Amazing stuff.

I enjoyed creating the stylized art in Adobe Illustrator, trying to find a balance between realism and easy recognition of the PDA, while still maintaining a pop-art feel. I wanted to experiment with rounded edges and very flat details. I chose to make it more stylized than detailed on purpose.

One of the ideas I've had with this shirt design is to create several funny bit-mapped text statements on the PDA screen, appealing to old-time Palm users. My buddy, Michael Ashby, an old-school Palm fan, helped me come up with a few ideas to consider:

1996 WAS A FINE YEAR FOR PDAs

HARD RESET. DANG IT!

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1996

I SYNC THEREFORE I AM

SPEED LIMIT 8MHz

Any you like? Have any ideas? I'd love to hear from other old-school (and new-school) Palm users with statements. If I like the statement, I may produce a t-shirt with your statement on it.

Custom, single-edition shirts can also be created with the statement of your choice. I'd love to create a one-of-a-kind t-shirt, using this PDA graphic, so if this interests you, let me know.

If you like the Apollo Thirteen T-Shirt, pick one up in Black ($20), White ($16) or Ringer ($16) at the Rohdesign Cafe Press store.

March 16, 2006 10:45 PM | T-Shirts | add to del.icio.us

Comments

If you're curious about the type of computer used in Apollo missions, have a look at:

http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

So, the question is would you go nowadays to the Moon (and back) with the help of a Palm? :-)

Posted by: Javier Marti at March 17, 2006 4:10 AM

Hehe.. thats awesome :) .. but I'm kinda a PocketPC kinda girl myself ...

Posted by: Nola at March 17, 2006 8:32 AM

I'd buy the "I Sync therefore I am" t-shirt

Posted by: at March 20, 2006 2:41 PM

Your wish is my command:

http://www.goodstorm.com/item/rohdesign/i_sync_therefore_i_am

Available in multiple color shirts and for much less than Cafe Cress!

Full post on all shirts coming later tonight...

Posted by: Mike Rohde at March 20, 2006 3:30 PM

Hi Mike,

Could you please make the 'I Sync therefore I Am' also available through CafePress? Goodstorm (although I like their quality and choice better) doesn't send to addresses outside the US :-(

Thanks!
Jean-Paul, www.palmclub.nl

Posted by: jphorn at March 20, 2006 4:28 PM