Retro Appliance Lover Gifts

Have you seen this toaster?

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

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

It's a male thing - I saw a toaster with power assist, and I bought it.

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

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

'A religious zealot denounces a toaster for working on the Sabbath'

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!'

Clyde in his 'egg-beater.'

"Al, you've been chosen Businessman of the Year by the Junior Chamber of Commerce."

"Do you want to suddenly decide we need a waffle maker?"

"That’s a toaster. It’s a tanning bed for bread."

"We're gonna entertain you for exactly the next 30 minutes."

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

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

'We never had all these labour-saving devices in my young day!'

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

Roasted

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

'And a special feature on this model is the diet ice cubes.'

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

'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.

"Wow! The big guy! And what kind of B.T.U.s am I looking at here?"

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

Forty-five words per minute? Impossible!

"My compliments to the can opener."

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

Linda discovers she had just baked the wrong ziti

'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.'

Entertainment systems

Old-fashioned computer