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Caption This for 07/15/11

Posted July 14, 2011 4:45 PM by Sharkles
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07/14/2011 4:53 PM

A halloween costume I wore was very close to that when I was a kid, sad perhaps, but true.

My design was based on the apple II+ looks like that one is from around the same time.
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07/14/2011 5:04 PM

Hot dog for a space bar? Functional yet nutritious.

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07/14/2011 6:00 PM

"Hot dog for a space bar" I thought his trousers were unzipped.

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07/14/2011 6:34 PM

HAHA! good one!

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07/15/2011 2:14 AM

That's not a hot dog; it's obviously a "HAL" o'weinie.

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07/14/2011 5:42 PM

Refurbished "Trash-80"?

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07/14/2011 11:26 PM

George Lucas as a boy!

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07/14/2011 11:27 PM

Hey blockhead, there's more to life than computer games.

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07/15/2011 12:32 AM

1 800...Ya'll fill in the rest

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07/15/2011 12:48 AM

Early mobile computing prototype.

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07/15/2011 2:07 AM

Spywear...

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07/15/2011 3:09 AM

C3PO to R2D2: "Is that my daddy?"

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07/15/2011 3:28 AM

Now we see the spirit in the machine

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07/15/2011 3:30 AM

I'm longing to feel Uhuru's fingers on my keyboard. Though knowing my luck, it'ss be Sulu standing in...

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07/15/2011 3:53 AM

Clarly the product developers at KrisDelTM had missed a trick when designing their latest laptop....

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07/15/2011 5:06 AM

If he really wanted to be scary he should have the Windows Blue screen of Death on the monitor portion of his costume.

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07/15/2011 5:41 AM

Let's see Bill G copy this!

or maybe he did. Do you suppose this his were his company got its name?

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07/15/2011 7:10 AM

Domo Arigato Mr Roboto

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07/15/2011 8:55 AM

It's the ghost of computers past.
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07/15/2011 12:13 PM

Finally the American education system is beginning to teach kids the basics of robotics in grade school

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07/15/2011 5:43 PM

John wished he had simply accepted the humiliation of sitting on the naughty step.

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07/15/2011 8:10 PM

Not bad, but this robot (from my very early youth) was a real MONSTER ROBOT:

And as you an see, it was truly TERRIFYING!

/And like the modern one above, it was also a flashing robot.

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07/16/2011 4:30 AM

The mysterious 80's running computer. Just stopped to scare the competition...NOT!

Instead, It just wiener out....

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07/16/2011 9:15 AM

There's gotta be a better way of advertising my windows operating system, said Bill.

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07/16/2011 11:58 AM

It looks like little peter needs a control-alt-deleter.
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07/16/2011 5:49 PM

Can't believe he's wearing those socks. What a wally!
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07/17/2011 8:37 PM

Y2K dude, Y2K! Its the end of the world!

Yet another reason why (most) of us did not take the 'Millennium bug' seriously.

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07/20/2011 2:07 AM

Sadly, Marvin could not remember LISA's address.

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