Retro Technology Admirer Gifts

Chinese takeout closed temporarily: 'Our abacus is down.'

"Still pretty liberal."

"I can't hear the dial tone."

"Will it crash in the new millenium?"

'I'm afraid you have called the wrong number.' (he has one of those old-fashioned phones with a rotary dials)

Save the Rolodexes! 'I hate to tell you this, but they're not animals.'

'When I was told our new electronic security system was going to be state of the art, no one mentioned it was state of the art in 1954.'

"Now it's high definition!"

"In the olden days, people used payphones. Beats me how they took selfies!"

"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.'

'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!

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

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

Early on-line shopping

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

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

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."

'Early Laptops.'

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

Old Phones Lasagne

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

"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.