If Obama's a Mac.... Then McCain is a.....

[WCGreen]

Dandy Tandy

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. TRS-80.

Or maybe an abacus.

[MercutioATC]

44. That was my first computer...a TRS-80 Model 1

4k or RAM...I upgraded it to 16k...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. Mine, too.

Imagine my excitement when I advanced to a Commodore 64!

[Mz Pip]

2. an old

pong game.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. demented fool.

And that's generous of me, I must say.

[marmar]

4. Abacus.....

n/t

[Kittycat]

17. Far too complex... More like

a couple rocks and a stick.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

35. No, too advanced. Just a stick.

An old, whithered, limp stick.

[Muttocracy]

5. I was thinking a gramophone. Insert Bush record, play, same old sound. nt

[ColbertWatcher]

23. Good one! n/t

[Bozita]

6. Smith Corona typewriter

[bullwinkle428]

7. My first guess was "Trash 80" (TRS-80 from Radio Shack)!

Yeah...I'm showing my age now! ;)

EDIT: D'OH!! Another poster beat me to it!

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. An Eli Whitney cotton gin?

:beer:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. An Altair...

[MannyGoldstein]

14. Damn, Can't Top *That*

Maybe a wire-wrapped vector board with a 4004 and RTL glue logic?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Dupe, delete

[Richard Steele]

11. Papyrus scroll. nm

[rurallib]

12. a busted calculator.

[Muttocracy]

15. given his inability to budget for his future plans (tax cuts, more military, etc.), yeah. nt

[Clear Blue Sky]

13. Sliderule...

[rurallib]

19. B I N G O !!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tjwash]

16. That guy that holds up the line at the grocery store while writing a fucking check.

Dude...they invented something in the last 20 years. It's called a DEBIT CARD!

[ingac70]

18. Vic 20 n/t

[SoCalDem]

20. clay tablet & stick

:)

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Either of these...

[msongs]

22. Mac only has 7% market share or less. you might want a different analogy nt

[Elwood P Dowd]

27. And what is the market share for Mercedes?

I dumped my piece of shit Windows PC years ago. I don't care what Mac's market share is, but I do know the computer part of my life is 10,000 times better since I left that piece of shit PC/Windows world.

[Lost-in-FL]

32. hear hear!!

PC=POS

[Ellipsis]

34. Zing!

DR HANSGEORG NIEFER: we have now a market share of more than 7.5%... due to exciting products and very good service. Beyond 3.5 tons we have a 23.3% market share.

[berni_mccoy]

51. There are 30 million Macs out there and it's the fastest growing personal computing platform.

If you count the home market the percentage is higher and sales of Macs run about 3 million units per quarter.

Yeah. I'm a Mac.

[Ellipsis]

24. Heathkit H-8.

[chknltl]

25. Smeghead

Song of the Smeghead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV17GxTh3Mo

[JBoy]

26. the breadboard of an abandoned 1st yr Elec Eng student project.

two wires and an AND-gate chip.

[ColbertWatcher]

28. LOL!

Geek joke!

Well done.!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. An abacus

[Lost-in-FL]

30. a toaster...

[JBear]

60. Is that Dumbledore? (n/t)

[backscatter712]

31. 1960's era IBM mainframe.

Something that has about 4KB of RAM (ferrite core memory), about 500KHz clock speed, and a hard disk that looks like a washing machine that's always on spin cycle...

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[sakabatou]

45. Evil Grovelbot!

[whistler162]

36. Hopefully Obama is a Cray!

or even a Beowulf cluster.

[Warpy]

37. Noisy old mechanical adding machine with 3 stuck keys

[greendog]

38. an old matchbook

[WCGreen]

39. See back then Computer Geeks got all the girls...

Psst... Take a look at my Ram...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. LOL!

:rofl:

:spank:

[JBoy]

55. Ha! And back then RAM was fucking huge!

[SidDithers]

40. Gutenburg printing press...nt

Sid

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

42. Ten fingers and ten toes

After that, it's the nose, the eyes, the ears, each wrinkle. It's a pretty elaborate computing system.

[leftofthedial]

43. a bag of rocks

[Patsy Stone]

46. ENIAC

My other answer was a sundial.

[tom_paine]

47. Commodore 64 wearing Depends.

n/t

[flpoljunkie]

53. Nailed it!

[bbernardini]

49. A Coleco Adam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam

[backscatter712]

61. OUCH!!!

That was one turkey of a computer, even when it was new!

[SteelPenguin]

50. A 286 running Windows 95

To really be true to the analogy he at least 'runs' in the current environment, but just not well and he's about as old as can manage it. I'd say he's a 286 chip running Windows 95 in CGA mode and Internet Explorer 3.

[Snarkturian Clone]

52. If Obama's a Mac, McCain is on crack. NT

[frickaline]

54. WOPR

[spanone]

56. hand held calculator

[leeroysphitz]

57. UNIVAC

[hatrack]

58. A chipped flint hand-ax from the Olduvai Gorge

:evilgrin:

[JBear]

59. Sinclair!

I believe it was the Sinclair that was the membrane keyboard about the size of a toaster. 16K of memory if mine serves...

:bounce:

[Ichingcarpenter]

62. My Fingers and Toes

I still don't know how he counted to 100?

[nashville_brook]

63. Turing Machine -- garbage in garbage out.