Collecting Vintage Devices Gifts

'You're lucky. When I was a kid, we had to walk all the way over to the set to turn it on.'

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

'In my time, we didn't talk to a blackberry. We just ate the damn things!'

"Thanks—I got it off Amazon."

Frankenstein's Monster's PC.

"And this is one of our most poular models..."

'I've found a spade I like Julia...'

"Cap'n FancyPants got himself an i-Patch."

Old Phones Lasagne

Old-fashioned computer

The Uses of a Stethoscope

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

Geeks and their dogs.

Old and new technologies

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

"The computer's messed up? How time flies! Seems only yesterday you couldn't program the VCR!"

"Business is as usual. Marginal."

Idiot's Guide to Programming a VCR.

What's that? A car phone. All I need now is a car.

"'APP'y Birthday!"

An elderly woman with a heart-shaped ear trumpet

'You can't tell a book by its cover, or a reading tablet by its high contrast, no-glare touch screen.'

"My computer tower is so big and old, I had to rent a forklift to remove it from my home."

'We need a new TV, Dad — it's stupid watching 'Reading Rainbow' in black and white.'

Antiques.

'He has so much stuff, toys and gadgets so now we punish him by sending him to our room.'

'I can't hear a thing!'

'If you let me chase you through that field so I can get my dash-cam video on TV, I'll forget all about this little speeding incident!'

Frank, I just finished writing an ad to sell my home entertainment center. The chair is included? It's covered with gum! That's why I said 'Have a complete movie theater experience." The audio components are smashed! Bits are all over the room! And that's why I said "Surround sound system"! Ernie, people want flat-screens ... not a thick cabinet TV! I was honest about that, Frank. I said "3-D television"!

Pirates: 'So Bluetooth, we meet again.'

Want to work for MI5

"Can't keep away, eh...?"

The Little Burner Phone that Could.

'It's a World War II portable phone and it works great when I have someone to crank it.'

'It was such a nice salesman who told me that this is a special bargain and all your friends will envy you when you use it as a bottle opener!'