Retro Computing Gifts

'Can I carry your computer disks to school?'

'Hi! I'm selling CD-Rom Encyclopedias...'

'When I was on amphetamines in my wild youth, I could write a 25 page paper in an hour on a manual typewriter, but not in any known language.'

The Missing Sock Returns

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"It only goes forwards and backwards. So, you won't need a GPS."

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

Early Adopter...Early Opt-Outer

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

"Desmond likes to live in the moment. . . and that moment happens to be 1960."

Early Colour TV

'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!'

The original paperless office

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

Fossil record player.

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

The Old Time Television Channel

Colonial Larrysburg.

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

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

Bill was so determined to Twitter no one dared tell him he couldn't do it with a calculator.

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

Boombox

'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.

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

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

Technological advances within the office.

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

Alien attack in the 1950s

Man hitting a TV and going out of focus himself.

Space hopper as a bouncer of a nightclub

"Yo, how's it swinging?"

'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.'