Vintage Software Enthusiast Gifts

"...My name's Claire and I use Windows 2000."

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

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

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

"I hate you! You don't understand me and you don't understand my software!"

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

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

Early on-line shopping

'Oh, relax - you're doing great for your age...but I am a little concerned about out computer's old operating system.'

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

Early Programmers.

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

'1001 things to do whilst waiting to get on the internet.'

'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."

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

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

'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."

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

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

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

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

Old and new technologies

"You're right. I have to come up with a brake of some kind."

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

'I call it 'Myspace'''

"We were looking for a non-hackable, energy efficient data center. Thanks for the file cabinet."

'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.'

'Peter Rabbit and his sisters, Floppy Disc and Mopsy.'

The Final Chapter.

Computation Lite, 13 Computations Than Our Regular Formulas.

Forty-five words per minute? Impossible!