Your first phone?
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I really meant first cell phone. Of course we all had the Western Electric model 500. The phone company issued them to
usour parents. We didn’t even own them back then. -
I really meant first cell phone. Of course we all had the Western Electric model 500. The phone company issued them to
usour parents. We didn’t even own them back then.@jon-nyc said:
The phone company issued them tousour parents. We didn’t even own them back then.My parents owned rotary phones, but I owned wall-mounted touchstone phones myself. I was already living on my own at the time, so I owned the wall-mounted phones, not my parents. I also owned DECT phones, "cordless" yet "not wireless."
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Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.
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Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.
Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.
It was the same in the UK. You had to rent them from the Post Office who ran the service until it was privatised in the 1980s. We had a party line - shared with a neighbour
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I remember the blackberry. Used to play brick breaker (or whatever it was called) a lot. LOL. Thought it was the coolest thing to get email on the phone.
(now I realize maybe that was not such a good thing. LOL)
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The original version was just for email. The first time o saw one was in 1999 at Nasdaq. Their CIO carried one. He was always testing new technologies. I remember they had a pilot project where they sent stock quotes over TV signals using the channel designed to carry closed caption information.
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The original version was just for email. The first time o saw one was in 1999 at Nasdaq. Their CIO carried one. He was always testing new technologies. I remember they had a pilot project where they sent stock quotes over TV signals using the channel designed to carry closed caption information.
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