[aklug] Re: Brick Phones

* Jim Wadell <jim.wadell@gmail.com> [140212 21:14]:
> You kids don't remember the Motorola shoe phone. Not much smaller than a
> brick, cost about $800 unless you signed your life away. They were way
> much smaller that the previous version, which came with a lead-acid
> battery and a canvas bag to carry it, and it had a "conventional"
> handset. This puppy ran for about three hours on standby. I did not pay
> the bills, but I think one could buy a car a minute for the air time.
  I remember when we talked to our neighbors (miles away) with smoke
  signals.

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Tim 
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