Old Tech Admirer Mugs

'In every office there's always someone who didn't get the message.'

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

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

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

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

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

The original paperless office

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

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

Early on-line shopping

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

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

"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.'

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

Old Phones Lasagne

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

"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.'

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

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

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

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

'I call it 'Myspace'''

Old-fashioned computer

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

'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.'

'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.'

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

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

Old and new technologies

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