Retro Technology Admirer Prints

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."

'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.'

'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!

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

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

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

Early on-line shopping

"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.'

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

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

'Early Laptops.'

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

"Call Harris back from retirement and ask him how we did things around here before computers."

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

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

Old Phones Lasagne

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."