Yesterday's lengthy Engadget 1985 entry combines nostalgia, tongue-in-cheek humor and clever self-parody. It also reminds us how much tech has changed in twenty plus years.

The Apple item in the list notes the discontinuation of the Macintosh XL (formerly "Lisa") and says the Apple II line is "the only real hope for the future of this company." (That's about as accurate as any prediction anyone has made about Apple in the past two decades.)

If the cell phone items in Engadget 1985 don't make you laugh out loud, check out the "portable" Panasonic system with its built-in turntable. Yikes.

Now, where can I get a Commodore 64 and a working copy of M.U.L.E.?