on 11/26/02 6:16 PM, Andrew Kershaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ha, so I was going through some old photos of mine today. My (high > school) senior portrait pictures were in there. Guess what I was > wearing for one of them... > > A MacWorld Boston '97 PowerComputing promo tee. The "The Machine" > one with they guy in sunglasses on the front, mouth wide open as if > shouting.
Perhaps that guy was Power Computing founder Steve Kahng. > Keeping this semi-on topic, where there other PowerComputing > T-shirts? I've never seen any (NONE, just my own!), but I proudly > wear my 2 (both the same "Machine" shirts), despite their failing > physical integrity. I know that some allegedly authentic T-shirts pop up on eBay regularly that display the famous series of Power Computing ads and purportedly came from MacWorldExpos. They typically sell for c. $25. You can see the ads here: http://www.streamstudio.com/aboutus/pcc/campaigns.shtml I've made only one MacWorldExpo, in SF in '97. One of my regrets is that I had not properly tuned in to Power Computing at that point (I bought my PowerTower 180e several months later, though). My wife, however, recalls that the Power Computing brigade pulled up in a Humvee, dressed in camo, and that their booth area was covered in camo netting, howitzer-style. I do recall the "Fight Back for the Mac" posters stapled to posts in downtown SF. The freebies I came away with from that MacExpo were a bunch of Nikon Coolpix buttons and, ultimately, a freebie copy of an overly priced WYSIWYG HTML editor called (I think) WebFusion. It was a pretty crappy app. Happily, I later bought a copy of a wonderful book, "HTML for the World Wide Web" by Elizabeth Castro, and the full version of BBEdit 4.5. That was vastly superior. But being such a fan of Power Computing, I genuinely wished I had paid proper attention to the Power Computing gang and grabbed a shirt. Or two. Or twelve. Or perhaps I should just focus on the memories of my wife dragging me from MacWorldExpo and us riding the cable car out to Fisherman's Wharf, eating seafood and watching the sea lions bark as they basked in the January sun. Geez, reckon I'll be babbling about such stuff in the nursing home years from now? Happy computing! -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
