Retro Tech Aficionado Gifts

"It's another e-mail from your folks. You know, this would be a whole lot easier if you'd just tell them about the Web."

'Trevor was the first rep at the office to have a portable computer.'

"Yes, I believe I was one of the first dentists to use computers!"

Man from 'Printing Industry' riding on the speeding computer

Repairing the Sundial's clockwork

RIP Telephone Landline

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

"That's a rotary phone, from when people used their forefinger to call instead of their thumb."

Mobiles for Adults

BYOD issues were an even bigger problem in the 1950s.

Early mobile phones

'Unfortunately, our wireless network is also printerless and computerless.'

"V.C.R's programmed"

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

'W-R-O-N-G Voltagggeeee for a vintage machine like myself.'

'Since I upgraded my cell phone, my reception is so much better.'

'The announcer said 'don't touch that dial'... What's a dial?'

'It does everything a smart phone does.'

Ye Olde Royal Walkman

"This one's got two trilobites of memory!"

Automatic Egg Rationer

"You have no new messages. You have 257 saved messages from two years ago. To admit that you are no longer popular, press '1.'"

"It takes you back, doesn't it!"

"Would you quit fooling with that thing, Raymond? I've told you the real money is in television."

"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?"

The original paperless office

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

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

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

Early on-line shopping

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