Retro Technology Appreciator Gifts

'You want me to be more like I was when we were first married? OK, I'll put away the remote and change it manually.'

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

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

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"I don’t know what your invention’s called, but it’s really irritating."

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

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

Photographer Phone: 'Okay everybody, SMILE!'

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.'

Fossil record player.

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..."

Early on-line shopping

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

"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.

"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."

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

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

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

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

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

"I know we said we'd get you a laptop,but this will have to do until business improves."

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.

Technological advances within the office.

Man hitting a TV and going out of focus himself.

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

Old and new technologies