Retro Tech Lovers Gifts

"Why am I being trained on obsolete equipment?"

Search for Extra-terrestrials - "Did someone leave a message on my pager ?"

"My customers never heard fax or e-mail either."

The Pay Phone

"Ha Ha, you have a flip phone!"

'I was born way too late.'

The iSaw

Stained Glass WINDOWS

'This is a painting of your grandfather.'

"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?"

Cord cutter

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

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

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

The original paperless office

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

'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.'

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

Early on-line shopping

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

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

'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.

'Sorry, I can't help you, the computer's down again.'

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

"The new computer is great, but we can't get rid of the old one. It knows too much."

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

'Early Laptops.'

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

Bill was so determined to Twitter no one dared tell him he couldn't do it with a calculator.