Hi Mike, Thanks for the feedback! Regarding last year's shirt, let me know (publicly or privately) what size shirt you are hoping for and we'll see what can be arranged as I think we still have back stock. For everyone's edification, we are in the process of inventorying existing back stock and will be announcing what is available and how to purchase shortly. As it stands, for back stock, we are not in a position to deliver, so sales will primarily be on site at workshops and the like. We are actively looking at print on demand options and the availability of extant source designs files for the previous t-shirts. Once we've depleted a good portion of the back stock, we're going to see what we can make available print on demand. Going forward, our hope is to do one big run each year for the events and then phase each year's design into print on demand so people can buy them well after the run is depleted. Best wishes, -Adam --- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation http://vcfed.org https://www.instagram.com/vcfederation https://twitter.com/vcfederation https://www.facebook.com/vcfederation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdBVD2wVUkuJQZhxGvVr0Q On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 11:02 AM Sentrytv <sentrytv@yahoo.com> wrote:
I like the black and green idea and I also like the logo from the last T-shirt but I unfortunately did not get a chance to purchase one and certainly would love the chance now.
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On Feb 6, 2021, at 10:56 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
With the news that VCF East has been postponed to the Fall, we are able to move forward with one of many projects to give members more input into the day to day running of VCF.
To that end, we're going to try a new approach to designing the T Shirts. For those who may not know, we design one t-shirt for all events in the year (VCF East, VCF West, and, historically, VCF Pacific Northwest).
This year we are going to ask several graphic designers to submit designs on the theme of the anniversary of the IBM PC 5150 and the general theme of text adventure games. To that end, we are opening the floor for both input and suggestions.
The running idea is to have a stylized IBM PC 5150 with a classic Colossal Cave Adventure (CCA) quote on it. Personally, I'm hoping for "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." The idea is that CCA was played on the 5150 but also predates it on mainframes and minicomputers.
We're also leaning towards the green and amber on black options from last year. We won't necessarily do this every year, but it seems to make sense when talking about the 5150 and, of course, who can resist a good old fashioned green versus amber argument?
Once we have a quorum of submissions by graphic designers, we will return to the membership to help decide which shirt goes to press. We realize this takes some of the fun of the surprise out of it, but we also realize that designing a t-shirt that more people like and have input on is a win all around. We also have near term hopes to make shirts available for print on demand after the events and may even bring back some of the classic shirts (thank you, Dan Roganti! May you RIP), also as print on demand.
General and specific suggestions, publicly or privately, are most welcome and we would love some more ideas of different classic text adventure quotes. To answer the most obvious question, Zork was high on our list but there are already a lot of t-shirts with the famous Zork quotes. We would also love any submissions of the actual drawn design from any of you, the more the merrier!
Best wishes,
-Adam
--- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation http://vcfed.org https://www.instagram.com/vcfederation https://twitter.com/vcfederation https://www.facebook.com/vcfederation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdBVD2wVUkuJQZhxGvVr0Q