Obsolete Tech Aficionado Mugs

"Instead of coming from old money, I, unfortunately, come from old computers."

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

'I'd explain how the TV, VCR, DVD, surround sound home entertainment system works...but I don't know.'

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

Early on-line shopping

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

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

'Sorry, I can't help you, the computer's down again.'

"Call Harris back from retirement and ask him how we did things around here before computers."

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

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

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

"I know we said we'd get you a laptop,but this will have to do until business improves."

'Trevor was the first rep at the office to have a portable computer.'

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

"Go ahead and laugh, but this baby hasn't crashed since 1961."

"You're right. I have to come up with a brake of some kind."

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

'We've got to upgrade our computer system. Downloading information on this one takes too long.'

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

Old and new technologies

'I call it 'Myspace'''

'Peter Rabbit and his sisters, Floppy Disc and Mopsy.'

The Final Chapter.

'When I was told our new computer was going to be state of the art, no one mentioned it was state of the art in 1954.'

"We were looking for a non-hackable, energy efficient data center. Thanks for the file cabinet."

"Hi..just ringing to see if you got my e-mail?"

"It's another e-mail from your folks. You know, this would be a whole lot easier if you'd just tell them about the Web."