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I well remember the early phones, more like the black table top/desk type that were cumbersome and not that flash in picking up a signal.April 3rd marks the 50th Anniversary of the first Mobile Phone call made on a Motorola hand held phone.
And haven't they grown in reach in 50 years.
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It was like carrying a handbag around back then.Way back when they were the size of a brick and needed the car battery for power; in the 90s, a realtor acquaintance closed a house sale by letting the buyer phone his wife.
"I'm calling on a mobile phone!"
They were an expensive novelty.
It's a worldwide experiment on the human race. Not sure it's going that well.April 3rd marks the 50th Anniversary of the first Mobile Phone call made on a Motorola hand held phone.
And haven't they grown in reach in 50 years.
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Mr Knobby mobile phones are definitely part of the furniture these days. I doubt people a bit younger than me would not know how to live without one.It's a worldwide experiment on the human race. Not sure it's going that well.
Australia's first mobile phone system began in Melbourne in August 1981 with the first call made between Telecom executives. But the system was limited to a $5000 car phone that weighed 14 kilograms, could store just 16 numbers and alerted owners of an incoming call by honking the horn or flashing its headlights.
I know! Ridiculous right?5G across the country. That's what dreams are made of!!!!!
Crickey 40 k's East of Perth and numerous spots of NO service at all.
Man, I'm 8 minutes from Midland (unfortunately) and I still have to stand on a pile of books, one one leg and a finger in my ear, to get a signal... and even then, that only works in the laundry room.5G across the country. That's what dreams are made of!!!!!
Crickey 40 k's East of Perth and numerous spots of NO service at all.
Ah Wayne try putting your phon up against a red gum branch with green leaves, seems to work for me at the other fsrm on the edge of the scarp. useless for a signal there sometimes.Man, I'm 8 minutes from Midland (unfortunately) and I still have to stand on a pile of books, one one leg and a finger in my ear, to get a signal... and even then, that only works in the laundry room.
Not a smoker myself, but for those who are, happy Hooch Day for Thursday.World Marijuana Day, also known as “20,” is celebrated on April 420. This date has become a symbolic day for cannabis enthusiasts around the world, who come together to celebrate the plant and its culture. But where does this tradition come from and why is it celebrated on April 20? I explain the origin of 420, its meaning and how it has become the day of the defenders of the legalization and decriminalization of cannabis.
What does the number 420 mean?
For those outside of the cannabis world, "420" passes as just another number, which perhaps means nothing in itself. It could indicate anything: a weight, a price, a street address, a shift number in the bank's waiting room. Indeed, there is no number that does not have meaning: by definition, it is a sign that always represents something.
But here, in this cannabis brotherhood, we all know what 420 represents. Smoke, sweet smell, a leaf with five or seven points, a sticky flower, a joint going around in a circle of friends.
The origin of 420 dates back to the 1970s in California, United States, where a group of young high school students from San Rafael High School would meet at 4:20 pm to smoke marijuana.
Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz and Mark Gravich, a quintet that in their early youth called themselves the Waldos, are the only ones who can show physical evidence that they had something to do with the birth and heyday of 420.
According to the story they have told over the past two decades, it all started one autumn day in 1971, harvest time, when the Waldos learned that a Coast Guardsman from the Point Reyes peninsula could no longer care for their (illegal) cultivation of marijuana plants.
As if it were treasure huntIt was said that the Coast Guard agent himself had made a map so that whoever wanted to could get there. Somehow, that got through to the Waldos, who decided to go after the plant loot.
I remember the 6802.Happy 45th anniversary to the ubiquitous Motorola 8086 chip.
It started a revolution that is still running today, albeit on better architecture.
Mick
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Only in the USA.
Well Mick I hadn't gone that far forwrd, but at least those that can count to 3 will get their sums right.
I bought one of these Tandy TRS80 computers in 1980, when they first came out for $1500, it had 16kb of extended memory, thankfully I found an engineer that agreed that it was the future and bought it off me. ?
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