That is a fun idea that should be done sometime. 
Very in the spirit of Dan's artwork.

How about a Rube Goldberg design using a chip and supporting components.?

Sent from:
My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.

On Jan 28, 2023, at 1:57 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

I could just be a simple Blinky light circuit, just to make comment to the
inderlying.technology that supports our hobby.  How about that old 6502
test circuit?.  Very easy to make into a shirt design  dors anyone here
knownwhat Inmean?  I could draw it if anyone not sure

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 6:48 AM Jeff S via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

The 74S181 is a remarkable chip in computing history, but I feel it may be
too esoteric on a t-shirt if we were make it the theme of the t-shirt.

If the schematic was used as a generic graphic, along with a VCF slogan or
something, people might easily understand it as "something about
computing." If we called it what it is on the shirt, it'll probably
generate questions like, "why this?", As opposed to the more common, "What
is this?"

Questions from the public are good, but questions from a confused public
are not as good. Unless we have exhibits or a show theme about the
historical significance of the 74S181, then it's schematic graphic wouldn't
work as a t-shirt graphic focused on the chip itself. It might actually
hurt t-shirt sales. If you showed one of our average visitors a labeled
picture of the 74S181 and an IBM PC, and asked them which one they would
buy as a t-shirt, what do you believe they will choose?

Think of it like this... why did we put a Commodore 64 graphic on a t-shirt
before, instead of a schematic or block diagram of its VIC-II chip? The
latter is a significant chip in computing history, but people will more
readily recognize a computer more than a specific chip.

I first wasn't wholly set on suggesting an IBM PC as the t-shirt graphic,
but good points and arguments were made in this thread about doing so.
Either way, the t-shirt graphic should be something more readily recognized
by a passing viewer AND be historically significant this year. In lieu of
any other ideas, the IBM PC would be a better choice in my opinion.

The 74S181 sure would be a great exhibit of historical significance if
someone needed an exhibit idea. 🙂

Jeff Salzman

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 1:20 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

On 1/27/2023 9:49 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

On 1/27/23 21:20, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

One working circuit idea:
I just was researching the TI ALU that some mini computers used
prior to microprocesses, 74S181.  It was pretty influential.
The logic diagram could work as a graphic to wear.