You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this.
For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on...
If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, 'Who's on First?' might have turned out something like this:

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue 'W'.
COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue 'w' if you don't start with some straight answers. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.
COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!
(A few days later)
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?
ABBOTT: Click on 'START'.............

Oh crap...... I was just laughing......[censored], I must be old, I know who you are talking about and get the joke.

That's like they could have written it.

I have no clue who they are, but it's funny.

Thanks. Now I really feel old.

I remember several of their shows, I think one was bud and lou meet frankenstein, or was it the werewolf? supposed to be a funny horror flick back then. remember the one about the mummy also

Anytime.

I'm 42 and I barely remember seeing re-runs I would imagine when I was a kid. Same with Howdy Doody...

what you mean thats old? remember them like it was yesterday!

Geez, I do feel old. The Mrs. and I have the VHS tape of Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, Dracula and the Werewolf. We watched it right around Halloween. Reading that skit about buying pcs, thats what its like when I talk to my parents who are pushing 80 and just dont get it!

My kid just read that (The Mrs. and I have the VHS tape)
shes like :whats VHS stand for? is it like (lol) ?

I said ya somthing like that.

yep, I got the "what's an LP" a while back from my kid.

Our son Jeffrey (12) asked me the other day "what is a land line"? LOL Then we got to thinking about it and realized that we have not had a "land line/home phone" since he would remember. How crazy is that! LOL

Been around 15 years w/o the land line for me. I remember the rotary phone hanging on the wall growing up. It was a share line to. I remember picking it up and another person was talking.
good ol' days.

still have a turn table (even though not using it much lately) and lots of 45s , 33s.....LOL...the biggest problemmtoday is when a turntable breaks , who can fix it, where to get parts...etc. but via the internet even thats easier now.

We now have server back ups of our engineering jobs that were done on computer, but when they were done we'd also back them up on disc to have a file copy.
A couple of months ago a new engineer (30's) pulled an old reference job, he came to me with a 5" floppy and asked me what the heck is this and how do you get info off it.
He said it wouldn't fit in his Disc drive...

After I stopped laughing, (so old almost pee'd myself though)I told him he was SOL since we no longer have a computer capable of running that style disc. He still had this baffled look on his face, like a kid seeing a 78 record for the first time.

Told him to check the server though as we'd backed everything up many years ago.

I still have many cases of these 5.25" discs around here from 20 years ago. Hope I never need them. I remember my old firm saying they supposedly were only good for 10 years though...

You laugh, I have this theory that in 50 years the only media we have today that we will be able to read then is a phonograph. Just look at the floppy discs, the cassette and the 8 track. They are only 10 to 20 years out of date and it is next to impossible to read anything of them. Yet phonographs that are 70 years old are still readable.

I saw a tech show where they stored and played a movie clip back from a roughly 2" crystal cube by injecting light beams in and out of it. No moving parts at all.
Pretty grainy replay, but the fact they did it means we're heading that way.

Molecular data storage or something like that.

Me too....and I remember watching the 3 stooges as well in prime time!

a 5" floppy ,, crap, I remember playing games( choplifter ) on a monochrome 10" screen on a apple IIc 32meg 16k cash 5"floppy 40meg hard drive. and was told the computer would never get much faster then that. that was lightspeed fast in the 80's

I still have a couple Atari 2600 consoles with working controllers and about 40 games and drag them out for the kids every so often. Still fun to play despite the Lego look.

My son asked me what the response would be if we could somehow take a PS3 and Assassin's Creed (a game with some rather good graphics) back to those days. I told him the computer would be confiscated and shipped to NASA and we'd be locked up as a national security risk for having way too much computing power.

Here's my first two, a Sinclair and then a "massively powerful" Columbia Data with twin 5" floppies, Hercules monochrome graphics (I upgraded the 128k mem board to 640k (built the board myself), thinking, I will never need another ounce of memory....LOL. Actually ran a primitive form of MS Flight Sim and some graphics software and autocad on it!!

I'll have to find my cellphone from about 1983-4. It is a fairly large metal box (about the size of a VCR) that fit in the trunk of the car. It is several components including a whole lot of big cables to connect between the tranceiver, antenna, power and the floor-mounted phone.

That one was compact compared to the ones we had in the company test cars during the trial of the first cellular system in the nation here in Chicago.

Wish I had my Dad's old calculator. My brother and I would play with it at the office. It was as big as a typewriter and took many secs to do a square root. Cost the co $25k back in the 60's.

I still have my 1st PC, IBM XT clone 8086 /w dual floppies and RGB monitor.

Got all my old cell phones as well!

Got quite the tech dump here!

Our Apple 2C is still here. What I don't know what to do with is three typewriters. One is real old. Don't know if they are trash or have value.

Save them for a museum.

I still have my "old Calculator", I bought in the early 60s (slide rule), here at the office! many of the younger guys have no clue to what it is, or how it works...!

its the one you use to get 2 x 6 = approximately 11.9999999 on! LOL

That's what I plan to do with the mobile car phone. The company I was with used to have a historical museum but I don't think it exists anymore.

I have thought of the local county museum for a few other things.

Not sure if I still have it but we used to have a Beta "portable" video camera. Took it to Disneyland when my kids were young. Gave up after about an hour or two. It was too much trouble getting through turnstiles with the briefcase size recorder and power pack. Bedides that the camera looked like something ESPN would use today.

Dad and my older sister used a slide rule at University. Brutal!

My Dad had a super8 camera. Pretty cool silent films. He filmed some old planes at an air show in slow motion. Came out great. He had a light system that when on top of the camera for poor light conditions. Must have been 2 feet long! lol

I have my slide rule and drafting tools in a shadow box in my office.
It says "In case of power failure, break glass"

WTH is a slide rule? Lp, 8 track, and VHS are things I've heard of or used. But a slide rule? I could google it, but I figured I'd ask here.

LOL, well, its easier for me to show the Wiki, than explaining it...its an 'older calculator ' not using batteries...very handy, mostly came in two sizes a, 14" or a 7" version..the shorter for pocket use...it was mandatory equipment in HS an college up into the 60`s ,70s...
the older versions were bamboo covered with ivory, later they were all plastic, mine are...my step dads older one was bamboo w ivory, kind of like piano keys...the bamboo was used because it was a 'stable' wood, didnt expand or contract much.

a mechanical analog computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

see even here I find people not knowing what it is....I still have mine at the office, but dont use it much anymore as the calculators are pretty sophisticated now

from the wiki abv:

the ten and 5 inch sizes they refer to are the actual scales , I`m referring to the actual size of the entire instrument

heres a picture of my 7", the pocket size, normally you would carry in the breast pocket of shirt of coat..this is the front side, the make is a German Faber/Castell

For example, to calculate 3 x 2, the 1 on the top scale is moved to the 2 on the bottom scale. The answer, 6, is read off the bottom scale where 3 is on the top scale. In general, the 1 on the top is moved to a factor on the bottom, and the answer is read off the bottom where the other factor is on the top.

this is where I referred to the , in "them olden days", common joke about 2 x 6 = Approximately 11.9999999 or 12.0000001 lol

I've got a slip stick around here someplace ...

Slide rule thing is a new one on me as well. Pretty much toast nowadays I would guess kinda like the abacus(s)...

The slide rule bridged the gap from the abacus to calculators when fingers and toes no longer worked for the carry overs.