Retro Gear Lover Gifts

Before the Swiss Army Knife arrived

Diner.

"Remember that time you tried to kill me?"

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"And this is our media room."

"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.'

Early Colour TV

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

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

The original paperless office

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

Instructions for Bow Tie Wearers

'This is the worst film noir I've ever seen.'

Computer Class.

“I have to warn you - my parents are a bit old-fashioned.”

'It's an antique!'

T-Shirt: 'Been there done that but I'd do it again.'

"If there's any one lesson we've learned from the eighties, it's how to shop!"

'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.'

The fate that awaits us all: creeping Rooneyism

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

'And this is Eddy, he's been giving virtual tours long before computers.'

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

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."

'Do I remember pre-decimal coinage?I remember pre-Tudor coinage!'

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

1950's.

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

"Well..I think the old Thermograph machine I rescued from work goes a treat with our kitchen units."

"Sitting on a beanbag doesn't take me back to the seventies- it just makes me wonder how I'm ever going to get up again."