Tech-retro Enthusiast Mugs

PC literate? Are you kidding- I can bearly use a shovel.'

"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."

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

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

'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.'

The original paperless office

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

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

Early on-line shopping

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

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."

'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."

"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."

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

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

"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."

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

"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.'

Technological advances within the office.

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

"Go ahead and laugh, but this baby hasn't crashed since 1961."

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

"Thank you for the rewind, Miss Cooper. Now let us fast-forward to that fateful moment in February and hit the pause button."