Evolv-ing Thread

[cigatron]

I text a lot but not to carry on conversations. I use it to send materials lists to my workers and pics to my clients and potential clients.
One thing about texting that is distinctly different than a phone call is that I don't have to respond to a question or comment immediately. It is generally acceptable with texting to respond back at you're convenience.

 

[SlickWilly]

So what codes are working for ft? Did I miss the sale?

 

[KTMRider]

So what codes are working for ft? Did I miss the sale?

REDPACKET

15% off. Ends tonight.

 

[Steamer861]

This is the first one I had, think it's still in the basement.

ETA: Before there was texting!

A Motorola Bag Phone Now that was a car Phone! I had one in my 92 Sonoma I had the roof mount antenna, Full 3 watts of power
This was my first Phone Back in 87
It cost all most a grand back then & was obsolete in about a year.

 

[awsum140]

Actually, my first "mobile" phone was from Bell. The transceiver/electronics were in the trunk with a trunk-mount, high gain, antenna and the handset looked like a "Princess" phone mounted on the transmission hump. You needed an operator to make a call, so why they had a keypad on the base of the handset beats the heck out of me. I used to dread the phone bill coming every month.

 

[Steamer861]

Even before the cell phones my uncle had a radio phone in his work truck, it was so big it came in a brief case.
It worked on the "trunking system" like a 2 way radio.
You even had to hold the button to talk, but you could make and receive calls from land lines. I even remember the # YJ25340

 

[SlickWilly]

I got a deal on that phone, the service manager of the Audi dealer I was working in hooked up with a customer who worked for a cell phone company, he was told if he got ten people to join in a group buy the phones with activation they would cost $150 each with the service was cheap, $25 a month, I think it was under a " promotional business package." I bought two, one for me and one for the wife, the wife never used her's so after a couple months I sold it to a buddy and recouped my money for that one. In the car I had to use a long roof mounted whip antenna and getting a signal was pretty spotty because there weren't many towers then but it was cool and not that many people had them. Not something you'd want to carry around but great for the car.

 

[Steamer861]

Ya the good old days My uncle was a contractor we worked on site all over.
He had the phone hooked in to the truck horn, so every time we got a call the horn would sound. I remember many times running to the truck to answer the phone. I was just a kid maybe 16 years old

 

[awsum140]

Those phones didn't support full duplex operation so you had to hit a transmit button to talk. It did work, reasonable well though. When I got into ham radio and FM repeaters the "phone patch" was a big deal. Again, PTT operation but no monthly fee, the costs being picked up by the radio club running the repeater system. You had to be a member of the club, pay dues, but that supported way more than the phone patch. It was really cool to be able to make a phone call from a walkie talkie, even though the walkie talkies back then were the size, and weight, of a brick. It wasn't private, though, and you couldn't "talk business" since it was actually operating under ham licensing rules.

 

[mikepetro]

I had computers (starting with a PC XT clone) long before I got a cellular phone. Different set of priorities back then.

 

[mikepetro]

Then Al Gore created the internet......

Funny, I was on it in the early 80s.....

 

[SlickWilly]

Still have one of these early Tandy's, hoping one day it will being good money. It ran only on the dark side, DOS. Bought it so the wife could write her papers at home rather then wait in line at collage in the evening, got sick of eating my own cooking LoL. We didn't have a lot of money then, I took out a loan to buy it along with the dot matrix printer. My brother in law gave me a copy of leisure lounge larry (?) something like that, so I had to buy a joystick for it, never could make it past a few levels LoL.

 

[mikepetro]

Leisure-suit Larry, remember it well.

 

[SlickWilly]

Leisure-suit Larry, remember it well.

That was it, wasn't there a uproar about it? I remember my brother in law telling me you couldn't get it because of some issue.

 

[mikepetro]

That was it, wasn't there a uproar about it? I remember my brother in law telling me you couldn't get it because of some issue.

I remember "buzz", both good and bad. The idea of a sex themed game was risque back then.

 

[mikepetro]

The one thing I really "missed the mark" on was the whole WWW thing. I remember looking at the very few existing websites when Netscape 1.0 was released and thinking "this is nothing, it will never go anywhere". At that time FTP, NNTP, and BBSs were the thing, I didnt think WWW would amount to anything. I credit Microsoft and their release of the "winsock" for changing that, it put AOL and the like into the consumer point and click world, no longer did you have to have any knowledge of a command line.

 

[SlickWilly]

Other then the wife writing her papers and me playing a couple games we got little use out of it, I learned just enough DOS to make it work for what we used it for, we never even thought of trying to connect with any web, don't know if you could have with that old Tandy? There was a long gap between when we stopped using it and when we had a computer built that used Win98 and a local dial up provider, when ever I saw a AOL free trial disk I'd grab one and use it.

 

[mikepetro]

Other then the wife writing her papers and me playing a couple games we got little use out of it, I learned just enough DOS to make it work for what we used it for, we never even thought of trying to connect with any web, don't know if you could have with that old Tandy? There was a long gap between when we stopped using it and when we had a computer built that used Win98 and a local dial up provider, when ever I saw a AOL free trial disk I'd grab one and use it.

Yeah, it would have worked with a modem (powered by a gerbil in those days) hooked up to your serial port.

 

[tiburonfirst]

OMG! You poor women how can you survive with out checking your FB 100 times a day
In all seriousness a smart phone is an invaluable tool! GPS, on the go browser for research.
E mail texting, with out it we are back in the stone age Even entertainment.
What do you do in waiting rooms? read old magazines full of other peoples germs?
I have be come heavily reliant on my phone & don't leave home with out it!

not invaluable to me no checking email, fb, ecf, or doing research when i'm on the road for waiting rooms i have my tablet offline to read my latest book from the library!

LoL, I hate hate hate texting too, I mean if you can take the time to type a text, why can't you just give me a damn call and tell me what you want!!! I finally had to drop the hammer on my friends and family, I told them that's it, I'm done! Unless it was a damn emergency and there was no other way to reach me I will not reply to texts anymore, it all stopped within a couple days.

had to compromise with texting! that boy of mine is more inclined to send a fast text

 

[Steamer861]

So I vaped a whole tank (10mills) thru the 30mm Supreme. This is the nicest Steam Crave product I have used to date! Rite now I'm kiking my .... for not getting 2 of them, when I got the 1 for 29.04 I was worried it would over hang on my mod, turns out I have 2 3D printed Yihi chip mods that hold it perfectly to. I put 1 in cart & took it back out 3 times today, even with the 15% off it's still 7 bucks more than I got the first one for. Real problem is I have a 25mm Supreme & a Boreas on the 2 Yihi mods now, there both performing 100% & i don't want to have to retire one of them.
At least I got 1 Anyone who has a mod that will accommodate a 30mm atty, I wouldn't hesitate to get the 30mm Supreme, 2 giant Thumbs Up!