Retro Gadget Enthusiast Gifts

"This is so cool! I'm flying this thing completely on my Palm pilot!"

Television With Video

Midlife Crises of Appliances.

'I don't have the heart to tell him that electric typewriters aren't REALLY the latest thing.'

'That concludes our meeting. Will the last one out please clap off the lights.'

'I'm not saying he's too old, but he has a five-inch floppy disk drive.'

"Didn't I say we should have bought a cordless?"

"Sally, there's a reason the picture won't work; it's a radio."

"How long have you had this fear of computers?"

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

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

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

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

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

'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.'

"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!"

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

"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.'

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

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

Old Phones Lasagne

"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."

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

Technological advances within the office.

"We were looking for a non-hackable, energy efficient data center. Thanks for the file cabinet."

'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.'

The anti-social network: 'Hey Jeffrey...I need help setting up my dad's anti-social network.'

Old and new technologies

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

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