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."

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

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"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'

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

The original paperless office

Clyde in his 'egg-beater.'

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

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

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

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

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

'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.'

Technological advances within the office.

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

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

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

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

'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'

'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

Entertainment systems

'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.'

Old-fashioned computer