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Dec. 9, 2008 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Next week, Microsoft will begin selling a new line of retro clothing:

"Software by Microsoft is a clothing line that taps the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our lives,” a Microsoft statement reads. "With retro logos, classic photos, and geek-chic iconography, these pieces showcase the DOS days of the software company that now connects over a billion people."

Here are some of the designs:

So, people will make fun of this stuff, but it looks like typical hipster menswear to me.

Discuss this Article 96

lotsamystuff
on Dec 9, 2008
"/aligningknuckles" Be sure to put your thumb on the INSIDE, Wae. Let us know how that works out for ya.
Delmont
on Dec 9, 2008
I still have a t-shirt from 1989 I'd say from Diskeeper sales rep with a cartoon guy leaning over a Vax with the phrase: "Fragmentation happens"
techfan
on Dec 9, 2008
@Mike - I see. I didn't know that but it's a cool bit of info. I had only seen the bibblet to present logo.
callayheeko
on Dec 9, 2008
@mikegalos@msn.com "Yes. I did look it up the binary in an ASCII table. Yes. I am king of the geeks." Pfffft. You mean you can't sight-read binary ASCII? :)
mikegalos@msn.com
on Dec 9, 2008
callayheeko Not well enough in a variable pitch font when they use different numbers of bits per line that I'd trust the translation enough to post it.
chuckb84
on Dec 9, 2008
Waethorn ""No baby on board, go ahead and hit me" /aligningknuckles" Glad you like it. I used to watch people in my rearview mirror when they pulled up behind me and read that. It got a lot of laughs. Those "Baby on board" stickers were rampant then. Even Jay Leno had a great joke about them. I also wanted to steal the sign across the street from my house in Washington, DC (it was not the greatest neighborhood) that said "Drug Free School Zone", but I was afraid that people would then start selling drugs there ;).
alamfour
on Dec 9, 2008
I think the Bill Gates Mug shot will sell the best.
Waethorn
on Dec 9, 2008
"Be sure to put your thumb on the INSIDE, Wae. Let us know how that works out for ya." Inside your eye socket? (j/k) It helps to be double-jointed too...
robertsjoe
on Dec 9, 2008
@waethorn: "OS X does not a Mac make." What dimwit would run anything but OS X on a Mac?
robertsjoe
on Dec 9, 2008
No you can publicly proclaim how much taste you don't have. Showing off that you're a Borg drone. Almost as bad as the losers on the "I'm a PC" (copied idea from Apple) ads.
robertsjoe
on Dec 9, 2008
@mikegalos: "Ballmer is another person in the "don't give a damn what anyone thinks and march to their own drum" group." Yes, he is. Completely oblivious to the fact that he and his whole company has no taste.
shark47
on Dec 9, 2008
I don't think he goes to an east coast school, by the way.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Dec 9, 2008
And, as expected, and right on time, several of my points have now been demonstrated.
tayme
on Dec 9, 2008
I am guessing its Pacific Time... --tayme
robertsjoe
on Dec 9, 2008
@mikegalos: You haven't made a valid point in months now. Just spreading FUD.
Waethorn
on Dec 9, 2008
"What dimwit would run anything but OS X on a Mac?" Obviously your President-Elect, since you can't use a Zune on OS X. "You haven't made a valid point in months now. Just spreading FUD." Spoken like a true a$$hat.
tayme
on Dec 9, 2008
@Paul - Have you made any progress on te ignore feature that many ofus would love to have? --tayme
tayme
on Dec 9, 2008
Wow...my typing s*cks today! --tayme
Delmont
on Dec 9, 2008
Here is the t-shirt I have: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/944/2000/1600/kloon.png ANd you can go here: http://biospud.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html And scroll down to: Raxco t-shirt charlatanism For the article of my shirt! Now, who's cool? :-)
robertsjoe
on Dec 9, 2008
Enough. I'm outta here, for good. Bye lads!
Ocean
on Dec 9, 2008
Thats not really how I act, is it?
Souce
on Dec 9, 2008
on a side note Ralph's released an updated version of his bluebage tool that doesn't change any fies.. it just updates the registry aka all features unlocked ftw. :)
DRWAM
on Dec 9, 2008
Hey, waddayawant, good profits or good taste? BTW, as I've posted before, the last two events that had a Ballmer appearance really impressed me. After some butthead threw eggs at him in Germany, Ballmer joked it off with the audience in a humble manner. A CNET interview when he was flamebaited, he never said a single bad word about the competition. In fact, he complimented them. I respect gentleman behavior. I come from a blue color family and aspired to become as such. Of course I kept lifting weights so that when someone would not yield to a professional, I could kick their ass.
Waethorn
on Dec 9, 2008
"Enough. I'm outta here, for good. Bye lads!" We'll hold you to that promise. Though, if it's anything like johnpapola's, we're not holding our breath.
Waethorn
on Dec 9, 2008
"I come from a blue color family" Do you have a quirky, musical stageshow with seizure-inducing laser lights and instruments made from PVC tubing too? LOL! http://tinyurl.com/6h4far
xtreem0
on Dec 9, 2008
Lol.. i dont know if i would buy any of those. Maybe the DOS one. Oh (offtopic but funny iphone video) http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/472735 i feel like a spammer but oh well >,>
benjwah
on Dec 9, 2008
It's hipster-doofus gold, and I want it all.
chuckb84
on Dec 9, 2008
Waethorn said: " "What dimwit would run anything but OS X on a Mac?" Obviously your President-Elect, since you can't use a Zune on OS X." Try to keep up, POTUS 44 is an ipod user: http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/19301/
tayme
on Dec 9, 2008
"Try to keep up, POTUS 44 is an ipod user" But really, who cares? What I want to know is what* he listens to on it. Probably replays of the Rev. Wright... --tayme
shark47
on Dec 9, 2008
"But really, who cares? What I want to know is what* he listens to on it. Probably replays of the Rev. Wright..." I think that's the reason he has to borrow his staff's Zunes when he needs to work out. :-)
chuckb84
on Dec 9, 2008
""But really, who cares? What I want to know is what* he listens to on it. Probably replays of the Rev. Wright..." I think that's the reason he has to borrow his staff's Zunes when he needs to work out. :-) Oh, that's an easy question to answer. Who really cares? Waethorn. He cared enough to bring it up, and get it wrong, like so much here...
weedmonk
on Dec 9, 2008
Way better than the generic swag out their Corporate store. I'm getting the DOS one.
amorach
on Dec 9, 2008
I will get one if it isn't over-the-top nerdy. But cool idea, anyway.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Dec 9, 2008
As for what President Elect Obama listens to on his Zune, the Zune Insider blog lists his playlist at http://social.zune.net/my/ContentRedirect.ashx?mtype=Playlist&mid=bf5016...
DRWAM
on Dec 9, 2008
We were so poor, that we couldn't afford a dictionary. Sorry for the typo. But Wae, my dad was a fireman and a musician. On weekends, he played in a country western band for years, but near the end of his career, he played in a rock band. It was great to see him play at friends weddings and stuff. That brings back good memories. But not even this good doctor could save him. He's where I got my electronic skills as he was an auto mechanic and electronic repairman too. Before that stuff, he was a drill instructor in the Army. You can bet that the we never left the toilet seat up! Doc
johnbaxter
on Dec 9, 2008
Mike, you looked up the binary in an ASCII table? I'm shocked. (I confess to having to get help to remember some of the punctuation now and then, although usually I can work it out. It was easier when they lined up properly with a KSR-33 keyboard.) Tayme, I've been using Apple products since Oct, 1977. I've never attached an Apple decal to anything. These days, it is hard to find a plain grey sweatsuit. I've been looking for about 3 years, and replacing the shirt from 1992 is getting critical. Why should I have to pay to carry advertising around?
RunTimeError
on Dec 9, 2008
Wow! 86 comments, most of them MS vs Apple wank.... and a flounce from robertsjoe to boot! ... all because of t-shirts! Amazing!
mikegalos@msn.com
on Dec 9, 2008
johnbaxter Well, to be fair, we've been pretty much focused on Unicode at Microsoft since Michel Suignard and Asmus Freytag gave us a lecture on it during the NT Live lecture series back in 1991. (The Windows NT family has been based on Unicode since long before it went public)
Mum
on Dec 9, 2008
Microsoft putting out t-shirts? Hard to believe, but they must be going out of style. Not that these are particularly unstylish. I'd rather wear something like this than a worn band shirt. "And, as expected, and right on time, several of my points have now been demonstrated." And vice versa :)
sttevo
on Dec 10, 2008
OMG how awesome is the Bill Gates mug shot on a t-shirt. I love that they can do that and not take themselves so seriously. Brilliant.
shark47
on Dec 10, 2008
"We were so poor, that we couldn't afford a dictionary." Don't they say, "Real men don't use dictionaries?" "Why should I have to pay to carry advertising around?" That's the reason I won't wear these t-shirts. That's the reason I give away my Apple stickers to friends who put them on their cars or non-Apple laptops. :) Now, if Microsoft paid me to do this...
Waethorn
on Dec 10, 2008
"POTUS 44 is an ipod user" So is he pulling another "Clinton" and claiming he didn't inhale? BTW: Funny, but totally true story: Yesterday another iTard (this makes more sense in context) brought a 13" White Macbook in to my store for servicing. I was out on a service call at the time, so one of my workers brought it in. Anyway, the guy had it in because he had it in his school backpack. He also had a bottle of pop in there. Put 2 & 2 together. What was his obvious instinctual action to do the moment he found out?: TO PLUG IT IN TO SEE IF IT WORKED!!! I mean, COME ON! The inside of it was drenched, and most of it was drained, but HE LEFT THE BATTERY IN IT! It was still there when he brought it in! When I got a chance to look at it, the components were still wet and sticky, and after finding an online doc on how to disassemble it (it takes 25 screws to take just the keyboard off - RIDICULOUS!), I cracked open the top, and immediately got a whiff of good ol' southern-fried electronics. Now it's a $1200 piece of unusable (but sticky - from what I'm hoping is the pop) shiny white plastic. That's an expensive paper weight! All I have to say is: "!?!"
Waethorn
on Dec 10, 2008
"Real men don't use dictionaries?" That explains losta. ;)
Dude1313
on Dec 10, 2008
Not quite right there Mike, by all accounts it appeared that the initial reporter can't be sure just what he was using: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Barack-Obama-Zune-iPod-MP3,news-3087.html http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/12/04/obama-zunegate-day-two/ And even the Zune Fanboys site acknowledge it: http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/flame-board/36750-obama-doesnt-use-zune... For the record I could care less what he uses. What MP3 player the president uses means absolutely nothing nor is it relavent.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Dec 10, 2008
"For the record I could care less what he uses. " True. If you cared a little less you'd only have 2 links denying it could be true. If you cared even less than that you'd have posted only one link in defense of your product. Why, you could have really cared less and just whined "it can't be true. I like him so he must love his iPod" without any links. Personally, I'm just amused watching the Apple fanatics sputter as they deal with even the concept of liking somebody who isn't part of their little cult.
tayme
on Dec 10, 2008
@Waethorn - Sorry, but your storry is irrelevent. I have seen adults bring in HP, Compaq, Dell, and other Windows based computers in exactly the same shape...for the same reasons. It has nothing to do with Mac vs. PC...it has to do with being careless and irresponsible. --tayme

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