Obsolete Tech Enthusiast Prints

STRIP Hambone: Techinical support in layman's terms #2

"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.."

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

'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!

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

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

Early on-line shopping

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

"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.'

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

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

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

"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).

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

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

'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.'

Old and new technologies

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

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

Of course we're faster and more powerful now. I just think we commanded more respect when we filled an entire room.

'I call it 'Myspace'''

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

'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.'

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

The Final Chapter.

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