Retro Tech Quotes

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92.

When I was little, we used to have Atari.

No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

I never thought we'd live in an age where we'd get to 2008's 'Iron Man,' which I think is a perfect movie.

MySpace is the site I wanted to be on.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.

When I was really young, I was using VHS tapes to record.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

I remember as a kid seeing Pong in a pizza place where I grew up in Oxnard, California, and having my mind blown by it. I thought it was a TV. I thought it was just something playing on a television. But then to be able to manipulate the paddle, and the ball with the knob was, in those days, pretty huge to a little kid! It was a simpler time.

I remember growing up in suburban New Jersey, and all the computer stores were like, 'Motherboard Mayhem' and all these cheesy names.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.

I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.

I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.

I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.

I know how to use computers. I was one of those guys on Myspace who had one of those fake hit counters.

The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!