Tech Throwback Enthusiast Gifts

"We saved a lot of money by investing in older computers. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go figure out why our profits are down."

Computer add-on.

"Okay, we've text, tweeted and emailed the old man. Does anyone know Morse code?"

Frank finally found a place to call home.

"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.."

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

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

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

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!"

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

Early on-line shopping

"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.'

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

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

"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."

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

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

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

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

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

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

Old and new technologies

'We've got to upgrade our computer system. Downloading information on this one takes too long.'

The anti-social network: 'Hey Jeffrey...I need help setting up my dad's anti-social network.'

'I call it 'Myspace'''

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

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'