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Post by siampolee on Aug 21, 2015 7:16:24 GMT 7
Promted by smugfarangs post memories came flooding back so here below is a ''starter for ten !! Well here below is an image if the first phone I can recall at home around 1947 ish. Our number was 3, the post office switchboard was one 1, my grandparents in the Manor house were two so we in the Dower house got number three. Rather amusing as I can recall my parents wishing to speak to someone in the village and the telephone operator/post mistress, postwoman cum village shopkeeper would say, ''Oh sorry so and so has just left here and is going to wherever. No secrets in those days. In fact the lady concerned would pass messages on to others and ourselves upon their or our return from wherever they or we may have been.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 7:30:50 GMT 7
So to get number 3 did that mean your folks were the third to get a phone in the village?
I watch my 2.5 yo daughter use mums or my smartphones, and even the iPad like a little champion. She can navigate her way around into her kids apps, find the songs she wants, swipe the volume up and down.
Bit off topic perhaps but kids these days are born into the technology. Even the home phone that plugs into the wall is becoming rarer.
The world's gone mobile.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 7:54:07 GMT 7
We had the first home phone in our street, so we were always getting bothered by the neighbors (can we use the phone). On the corner of our street was a payphone and every so often as you walked by it would ring. When you picked the phone up you would then receive a message to pass onto Mrs. Wridgley at # 14 or Mr. McDonald at # 17, etc. My first mobile phone was the Motorola Brick. Very strange phone, I could never find the camera, video or text function.  About 20 mins talk time followed by a charge time of about 6 hours. I remember upsetting anyone who called me when they got there phone bill and they were charged 32 pence (a local call at that time was 2 pence). I was also charged 32 pence for receiving the call.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 7:57:29 GMT 7
Before I got the Brick I had a friend who was leasing a car and he had one of these.  He would drive through the local town chatting away on it. However, the phone was never connected and his constant chatting was just a pose to try to impress any girls that he passed. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 7:59:08 GMT 7
You must have been loaded to afford that phone Tony.
Come to think of it, do Motorola still make phones?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 8:20:40 GMT 7
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 8:21:39 GMT 7
Nah, not loaded, part of the job I was doing at that time (no, not a drug dealer ). Motorola are still producing phones but they can't compete with the other brands (either for price or technology). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 8:22:35 GMT 7
Actually SFB, like most of us this was really my first mobile. |
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Post by siampolee on Aug 21, 2015 10:40:11 GMT 7
hippity.
Yes we were the third people or rather my parents were the 3rd telephone subscriber, rural England was indeed very rural in those days. We had and old retired farm worker aged 92 who had never been more than 14 miles from the village in all his life.He missed military service due to unknown reasons, thus no chance of travel.
Bedford Town was a world away from him (14 miles) and he had no desire and in fact saw no need to travel. We got together a charabanc outing and put him on it with the rest of the village elderly to visit Clacton on Sea 1960 ish.
His comments were. '' All a bloody great stretch of dirty old water and too many folks, weren't a worth coming all this a way for.''
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 18:08:49 GMT 7
Nothing like an older generation to keep any forum on track!
Cheers!
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Post by pgrahmm on Aug 21, 2015 23:09:52 GMT 7
Before I got the Brick I had a friend who was leasing a car and he had one of these. He would drive through the local town chatting away on it. However, the phone was never connected and his constant chatting was just a pose to try to impress any girls that he passed. I had a working similar one....Had to have cradles and wiring put in 3 cars and it transfered to a briefcase like box so you could have a truly portable phone..... In the Loma Prieta earthquake that paralyzed the northern Calif area and beyond I had one of the only working phones - worth it's weight in gold then.....most landlines that had power couldn't dial out but could receive..... |
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Post by OlPhatHo on Aug 28, 2015 15:14:58 GMT 7
My first mobile phone...wow...that goes back some years... My frst mobile phone was a Motorola Micro Tac. It was a good phone for back in the day...built tough. Except where the battery which slid onto the back of the phone would eventually wear down the plastic catches and the battery would no longer stay put. This would cause some dropped calls with some perplexed news editors sitting at a desk a hell of a long ways away. I bought that Motorola back in 1990 when I lived in HK and it lasted me until 1998 when the battery catches finally gave out & call from London was dropped making a foreign editor a tad bit cranky until I immediately bought a Nokia phone because I was standing outside a phone shop in Jakarta. When Jakarta quieted down after the rios & elections & I went through about a dozen mobile phones due to theft...I saw an Ericsson T28 and after a look & play...bought it. Since that T28 I have had a good many phones & have now settled down to a Samsung Galaxy S4. Good value for money IMO & can still swap out a battery when needed instead of beng a member of the "brick brigade". Attachment Deleted |
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