old school cell phones

[ag]

<p class="MsoNormal">So I&rsquo;m at work yesterday, when I noticed this box sitting on
top of the battery and cell phone recycling container. I was in shock and just
started laughing my ass off at this gem!
<img height="400" border="0" src="http://hstrial-agalli.homestead.com/100_0325.jpg" />
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<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by ag on 3-26-06 @ 9:45 AM</span>

[Gvac]

<p>My first cellular provider was Omnipoint, and I'm pretty sure they're no longer in existence.&nbsp; The phone was roughly the same size and weight as a brick, and if I was more than 20 miles from New York City I couldn't get a signal at all.&nbsp; </p><p>The funny thing is this was only about 10 years ago.&nbsp; My how times have changed.&nbsp;</p>

[Mike Teacher]

<p>And in less&nbsp;time then that we will look back at what is now the state of the art and laugh at it too; amazing the pace of technology, Toffler, et al, could have never dreamed of change so fast, all the iPods and cel phone/camera/planner/web access phones will look as anachromistic as that brick phone.</p><p>I used to tell my students in the early 90s there would be a 'no phones' policy in schools one day, they looked at me like I was insane.</p><p>I also remember my first real computer purchase, a [hold your laughs] Packard-Bell beast, and I spent the extra money to get the super upgrade from one to Two, count em Two whole Megabytes of RAM.</p><p>In high school we had punch card machines and hard wired the boards to do something like taking the cube root of a number, the computer itself was about the size of a VW. </p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 3-26-06 @ 1:42 PM</span>

[WhistlePig]

I had to learn on one of these in my first graphics classes in college--a Macintosh
Plus with a 9" screen and 4MB of RAM.
http://www.headgap.com/~macstar/images/macplus1a.jpg

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by WhistlePig on 3-26-06 @ 2:49 PM</span>

[Gvac]

<p>Sounds to me like you guys were spoiled with your first computers.</p><p>Behold the mighty Commodore 64!&nbsp;</p><p><img border="0" src="http://www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/museum/c64.jpg" />&nbsp;</p>

[Marc with a c]

<p>check out my phone, i like it.&nbsp;</p><p><img border="0" src="http://images.quizilla.com/A/ACslater/1052719275_Picturesds.JPG" alt="The image "http://images.quizilla.com/A/ACslater/1052719275_Picturesds.JPG" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." /> <br />
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[Death Metal Moe]

<p>Is that the NIce Guy Eddie model?</p><p><img height="150" src="http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/WanadooFilms/Misdaad/ReservoirChris.jpg" width="332" border="0" /></p><p>RIP bro.</p>

[Death Metal Moe]

<p><img height="240" src="http://epguides.com/That80sShow/cast.jpg" width="320" border="0" /></p><p>HEY!&nbsp; Give us our prop back!</p>

[GlassJoe]

<strong>evedder</strong> wrote:<br /><p>check out my phone, i like it. </p><p><img border="0" alt="The image "http://images.quizilla.com/A/ACslater/1052719275_Picturesds.JPG" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://images.quizilla.com/A/ACslater/1052719275_Picturesds.JPG" /> <br />
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</p>Poor Zach.&nbsp; It was the only way he could get his dad to listen to him.<br />
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[PapaBear]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Sounds to me like you guys were spoiled with your first computers.</p><p>Behold the mighty Commodore 64!&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/museum/c64.jpg" border="0" />&nbsp;</p><p>You had it made, GVAC. My first experience with the 64 was after we upgraded from the Vic-20. Floppy disc drive? HA!!! It had a cassette tape drive.</p><p>As for the cell phones, I was late in the game. I started out with a Motorolla Star Tac. I actually miss that phone, as I'm now using a lumbering old Nokia. I can't remember the model, but it's the one that was bottom of the line about 4 years ago.</p><p>Oh, and those brick phones... When I sold cell phones back in 1997, and those phones were on the way out, fathers would request our remaining stock of them for their kids. They figured, if the kid has the &quot;brick&quot;, they won't run up the minutes because it looked so lame.</p>