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"Oh great Oz, are you saying we don't need a mainframe?"

"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

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

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."

"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

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.'

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

'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.

"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.

'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.'

'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'.'

Old and new technologies