Photo of man on vintage T shirt — possibly computer-related famous person

[WBird]

I found this vintage T-shirt along with a vintage Apple logo T-shirt and other vintage computer shirts in the estate of an electrical engineer. The photo has a dot-matrix look. Anybody know if this is a famous person, and if so, who? I already googled “famous black computer scientists,” but it didn’t help. Thanks!!!
https://imgur.com/EAGkuYE

[Antique Frog]

Could be the electrical engineer himself, done at an early ’80s trade show. I’ve got a similar portrait of my father, done on fanfold paper at a trade show in London.

[Eve Everett]

Do not toss until you are sure its not one of Jobs’ original employees.

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS811US811&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=1980s+Apple+computer+employees&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwkKnc3pjpAhW5hHIEHZxnA4wQsAR6BAgKEAE&biw=1232&bih=640#imgrc=gpxFow5yt2l_JM

Scroll down to the picture of the Bandley Campus. look like any of these guys?

Before the spaceship: A look back at the previous campuses that Apple called home

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Eve Everett.

[Jay]

Eve is right. I’d really do the research. Maybe tehre’s a vintage computer expert here, but I’d also post on some vintage computers.

Here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/
Here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/

Or What is this thing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/

[Antique Frog]

Try and date it from the label. Looks ot me like it was done using a daisy-wheel or one of those printers with pins (can’t remember the name), maybe lashed up to a PDP-11 or similar, and then ironed on.

Of course, it could be Steve Job’s dad 🙂

First auction I attended was of an Apple dealer that had gone bust, about 1994. For some reason they had established a museum of Apple products in their back room. The room-full of equpiment, including a Lisa, sold for £150. I remember wondering why anybody would buy that load of junk.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Antique Frog.

[WBird]

Thanks for the Reddit links. I tried to post to all three, but I wasn’t allowed to post, probably because I’m new to Reddit. Anyone know how to overcome this? Thanks.

[Jay]

Need to spend some time Karma farming 🙂

[Ryanne]

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/
might be a good place to list it. not sure how much karma you need for that sub, but it might be none!

[Antique Frog]

I did ask a “vintage computer expert”, runs a museum on an industrial estate near me. He said it’s most likely a screen grab from a video feed (which is why the image is side-on) done as a a promo at an exhibition. Probably nothing to do with Apple, as they came later than the typical dot-matrix type printouts of which this is an example.

My 2 pence is that the guy looks Arabic rather than black.

[WBird]

Antique Frog, thank you for checking into that!

[Simon]

Looks like typical dot-matrix art that I remember from the late 70s or early 1980s so, while it could be someone famous, I’m thinking that seems less-likely especially as it’s not a particularly flattering image. The promo/trade-show thing seems like a good possibility but who would want a dot-matrix version of themselves on a t-shirt?

[sonia]

“who would want a dot-matrix version of themselves on a t-shirt?”

What!?!? Are you kidding? 😉
I had a great t-shirt with a dot-matrix photo of myself and 3 friends that we had made at the boardwalk at the Jersey shore. The 80s were fun times.

[Curious Curator]

LOL, sonia! Me too! only I had one made on a print, not t-shirt. I have to dig deep to see if I still own it. Thanks for the reminder.

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