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.'

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

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

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

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

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

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

The original paperless office

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

Early Colour TV

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

Fossil record player.

The Old Time Television Channel

Colonial Larrysburg.

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

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."

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.

Technological advances within the office.

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

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

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

Man hitting a TV and going out of focus himself.

Space hopper as a bouncer of a nightclub

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

Computation Lite, 13 Computations Than Our Regular Formulas.

'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.'

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

Old-fashioned computer