Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for April 08, 2022

25c?? My old Boy Scout Handbook advised me always to carry an emergency dime.

I saw a guy lugging one of those around once, he had a large bag connected to it via wire. I don’t know what that battery weighed but it had to be heavy judging by the size of that bag!

I DO like the crank on the side.

The problem isn’t usually being “behind the curve ball.” It’s behind the fast ball and out in front on the curve.

Love the hand crank! I used my first “cell” phone in 1982. It was more of a radiotelephone since there wasn’t a public cellular network, or at least not one that I knew of. Big, bulky, and weighed a lot.

Carrying it around keeps him in shape.

Almost $4000 for a Motorola DynaTac in 1984. I gave mine to the radio station’s promotions manager and took a pager. (I think I won!)

I’m an old time radio aficionado, and I remember a show from the 40s where a character was using a “car phone”, which was kind of a ship-to-shore radio in his car. He had to radio an operator who would complete the call for him.

ps, his phone is a masterpiece.

Love the quarter slot…

I remember leasing our first fax machine. Cost $79 a month.

Sal is ALWAYS behind the EIGHT ball. He hasn’t a ‘cue’.

My first cell phone was a bag phone you plugged into the cigarette lighter receptical ( when cars still had cigarette lighters in them, now it is an “accessory power outlet”). It had a handset that was connected to the phone by the cord. You were not always within range of a cell tower. Forget reception if you were in the back country. My father-in-law had one “just in case”. In 35 years, he never ONCE used it.

‘Hep’ was circa 1940s? Into the early 50s?

My first cell phone was so old it had a rotary dial.

looks like he bought the whole first tower!

She got a binky?

I recall the ’80s cell phone.

That style of phone was abandoned because it couldn’t display porn.

Still in the age of dinosaur, I see! Amazing it is still working once in a while!

I remember my first cell phone, it was installed in my truck. I also remember getting in trouble with my boss for not answering my phone. I had to apologize for not being in the truck because I was … … working.

Special Agent Mulder called, he wants his phone back.

No it doesn’t… they shut down analog a looong time back and there’s no way to hack those the make them digital.