Lovers Of Retro Tech Gifts

"Remember always power up you machine clockwise"

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"In the old days, we had to constantly feed the screensaver."

Cord cutter

The original paperless office

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

Backlash industries: makers of the macro-chip, bigger, slower..and it even makes mistakes

Before the development of the microchip, attempts to build a laptop computer were largely unsuccessful.

"The new computer is great, but we can't get rid of the old one. It knows too much."

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.

Technological advances within the office.

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

The anti-social network: 'Hey Jeffrey...I need help setting up my dad's anti-social network.'

"We think your telephone is a great invention, Mr Bell, but is a bit basic. How about adding a phonograph to it?"

Old-fashioned computer

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

'You'd better have a little talk with it - it wants to know where it came from.'

"Hold my video conferencing calls, Gina."

"One day, son, all this will rule your life too."

"Please mum - not the baby photos."

"Frank, I need your help. The computers are down, but I was told you know how to multiply two numbers together."

'I'm worried about that dog's hearing,Doris.'

"Oh, come on, you know we should have switched to touch-tone years ago."

'Margaret our phone's been tapped!'

'Mr. Dobson, you don't have to dictate into the intercom, I'm sitting in the room with you.'

'How kids really saw Mr Robinson in computer classes.'

"Don't worry Mac, I'll have that happy face back in no time."

"For a list of the ways artificial intelligence is killing your job, please press one."