A Tcl-Wear Chronology

A history of tee shirts, hats, office toys and other Tcl-related paraphernalia

Compiled by Tom Poindexter, October 25, 1998, last update February 12, 2000.

Tcl: not only great software, but also things you can wear! Tcl enthusiasts have created a line of tee shirts, hats, office toys and other items. Many items have been created to promote books, given to tutorial attendees, and just general good will. This list is a history of Tcl related items (including one-of-a-kind) that are in circulation about the Tcl community.

Each active link in the table points to individual photos, or you can see all the images (in no particular order) in one mondo list . Many individual photo pages have additional comments, so be sure to visit those pages too.

Year Item Title/Theme Sponsor Notes
1993 Tee Hello World Michael McLennan Given out at the first Tcl Workshop
1994 Tee The Best Way To Do X Addison-Wesley Tcl & The Tk Toolkit book cover promo $$
1994 Tee incr Tcl: More Than Chrome Toaster Michael McLennan incr Tcl class
1995 Tee incr Tcl: Smoking Alien & Toaster Michael McLennan incr Tcl class
1995 Tee Exploring Expect Don Libes, O'Reilly & Associates Exploring Expect book cover promo
1995 Tee Bisque Is Beautiful Michael McLennan incr Tcl class
1996 Tee Tcl Magic Don Libes, USENIX Monterey Tcl Conference tee $$
1996 Tee incr Tcl: Incr Man Michael McLennan incr Tcl class
1996 Tee BLT: Building Blocks George Howlett by request
1996 Tee SunScript: Tcl Feather, Universal Scripting Sun Microsystems conference attendees, special logo-ed edition for Sunscript team
1996 Toy incr Tcl: Powered By Incr Tcl Glow in the Dark Yo-yo Michael McLennan by request
1996 Toy 3d-puzzle? ? ?
1996 Toy AT&T Tcl/Tk Training: Office Basketball Set Michael McLennan, AT&T Training by request
1997 Tee incr Tcl: Established 1993 Michael McLennan incr Tcl class
1997 Tee BLT: Worker Bees George Howlett by request
1997 Tee Tcl/Tk Tools Andy Oram, O'Reilly & Associates Tcl/Tk Tools book cover promo
1997 Tee incr Widgets: Burning Down The House Mark Ulferts Alfredo Jahn ? by request
1997 Tee Effective Tcl/Tk Michael McLennan, Mark Harrison, Addison-Wesley Effective Tcl/Tk book cover promo
1997 Tee Sybtcl/Oratcl: Digging Data For Tcl/Tk Tom Poindexter, Talus Technologies Tcl DB class
1997 Toy incr Tcl: Foam Flyer Michael McLennan by request
1997 Playing cards Lucent Tcl/Tk Training: Playing Cards Michael McLennan by request
1997 Watch Sybtcl/Oratcl: Digging Data For Tcl/Tk Sande Spencer one-of-a-kind
1998 Tee incr Tcl: Speed Racer Michael McLennan incr Tcl class
1998 Tee Scriptics: Tcl Pro Scriptics Corp. software promo
1998 Tee BLT: '98 Windowing Bees George Howlett by request
1998 Tee Tcl/Tk For Real Programmers Clif Flynt, Academic Press Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers book cover promo
1998 Tee Tcl Blast CD Tcl Consortium Tcl Blast development team
1998 Hat Sybtcl/Oratcl: Digging Data Logo Tom Poindexter, Talus Technologies Tcl DB class
1998 Toy Tcl Blast Foam Temperature Sensitive Football Tcl Consortium by request
1998 Tee Get Your Wish Tcl Consortium USENIX general conference Tcl BOF & consortium members
1998 Mousepad Get Your Wish Mousepad Tcl Consortium USENIX general conference Tcl BOF & consortium members
1998 Tatoo incr Tcl/BLT: Toaster-Eyed Crazy Tcl Man Fake Tatoo Michael McLennan, George Howlett by request
1999 Fanny Pack Sybtcl/Oratcl: Digging Data for Tcl/Tk Tom Poindexter O'Reilly Open Source Convention
2000 Watch Expect Watch Tom Poindexter one-of-a-kind

Notes:

$$ - item was available for purchase

Many items given to attendees of various tutorials presented at Tcl conferences and AT&T/Lucent training courses.

"By request", a catch all term meaning the item was given out to supporters, or if you asked politely you might receive one.

Many thanks to SLS, SWC, TM, and JMP for assisting in graphic production.
Thanks to Frank Stajano for the Smoking Alien images.
Thanks to John Gillespie for the Bisque is Beautiful/Hello World images.



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