Retro Tech Admirer Prints

'Don't get smart with me!'

"It appears to be some sort of ancient texting device."

'...please switch of all mobile phones, paging devices and alarm watches...'

"Yes, we will exchange your phone, but I doubt you purchased that phone here."

Philosophie.fr Bulletin Board - 1936

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

Wine stored inside an old fashioned monitor.

'Funny, it usually works OK after you've given it a hefty kick.'

Native American using modem for smoke signals

'It isn't that our old computers aren't compatible with our new computers - It's that you're not compatible with our new computers.'

'OBSOLETE: Any piece technology you now feel comfortable using.'

'He's not a 'bad' phone. He's just not a 'smart' phone.'

"If I'm to create objects and graphics in the text...I'll need Windows."

Cowpat Discman

In the 1980s,drivers started to carry mobile phones.

Future Families.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

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

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

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

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

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

Cord cutter

'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!

"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

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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.