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Computer costume from the 80s will make you revisit DOS

This holloween costume from 1981 looks like an evil demon took over this guy's PC. Even in the days before Windows, you could still get a blue screen of BOO!

computer costume from 1981, via OObject

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Posted by: Courtney on October 3, 2008 at 6:28 AM

I wish I had a photo handy

I wish I had a photo handy of my early 90s version of this costume!!! My "screen" had the blue screen of death, LOL. And I actually folded all of the keys out of paper so they were super realistic. My brother was a gameboy that year and we rocked the tech costumes until it rained and we had a soggy cardboard mess on our hands. Thanks for the memories!!!!

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Posted by: Jacob on October 3, 2008 at 8:23 AM

BSOD

Fools! A quip about a Boo Screen of Death would have been much funnier.

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