Retro Gadget Geek Gifts

Cell phones - 'Do you have a phone that just phones?'

Electronic Abacus

"No wonder you're having back problems. You have an old, heavy mobile device. Have you considered updating?"

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

'I'd explain how the TV, VCR, DVD, surround sound home entertainment system works...but I don't know.'

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

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

"And this is one of our most poular models..."

Early on-line shopping

'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.'

'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.'

Old Phones Lasagne

'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?"

"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).

"Thank you for the rewind, Miss Cooper. Now let us fast-forward to that fateful moment in February and hit the pause button."

Old and new technologies

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

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

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

"You're right. I have to come up with a brake of some kind."

The Uses of a Stethoscope

'I call it 'Myspace'''

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

'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.'

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

'We've got to upgrade our computer system. Downloading information on this one takes too long.'

"Hi..just ringing to see if you got my e-mail?"