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From: Woody on 22 Mar 2010 05:45 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Reemember when we didn't have phones and just went away, willy nilly, at > > will, with no way of being contacted or telling friends about the coffee > > bar we were in or the weather? *sigh* > > Ah, the good old days. Which they really were... There is a certain type of holiday that gains from access to info, and a certain type that really loses. -- Woody
From: Jim on 22 Mar 2010 05:47 On 2010-03-22, J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: >> > >> > There were boxes with rotary dials on them >> > that you put (lots) of coins in. >> > >> > Remember? >> >> Yes, but that relied on knowing where someone was. The mobile changed the >> game because people stopped phoning locations and started phoning people. > > Not quite. You could phone the answering machine, > and the others could listen to that from another phone. > > Almost as good as having a butler, Good point, I'd forgotten about answering machines. I've never really got the hang of the whole dial-in-and-listen-to-your-messages bit. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Mar 2010 05:48 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Except america. They have really funny phones that don't even pretend to > work. Well they did, until they broke up the monopoly. Idiots; suddenly you had to *work out* which system was going to handle your call because to begin with they didn't have common access. I remember being driven mad because, on arriving in Washington DC, instead of just going to the airport phone area and calling the people I needed to call, nothing worked any longer. Which rinky-dinky system to use? They all had different phones... Until then, they worked miraculously well... Except for one weirdness. They were starting to use electronic switches, at a time when BT were still using Strowger or, if you were lucky, reed switches. So, in Britain, there was always a decent pause and maybe a click or two while the system digested your input. But I remember being totally thrown because the White House internal system, which of course had the latest and fastest kit, had the same internal dial tone as the public system. So you'd hit '9' and instead of the usual clues that you were being switched to an outside line, there was just a tiny blip in the tone that lasted exactly as long as your pressure on the key, and then... what? Had it worked? Yuck. But when you got used to the fact that it *always* worked, it really was magic, and when I got back to the UK and had to call Millom, which wasn't yet on STD, and there was an operator strike... 'You're trying to reach Millom? Oh, they're using smoke signals from there...' -- Peter
From: Pd on 22 Mar 2010 05:52 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-03-22, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > >> Yes, but that relied on knowing where someone was. The mobile changed the > >> game because people stopped phoning locations and started phoning people. > > > > Yup. You've neatly summed up the horror. > > Which is why there are about five people in the world who know my mobile > number, and four of them are family. Just in case anyone else needs Jim's mobile, it's 074x.argh!.$^Fbzzt___________________ NO CARRIER -- Pd
From: Jim on 22 Mar 2010 05:58
On 2010-03-22, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: >> > >> >> Yes, but that relied on knowing where someone was. The mobile changed the >> >> game because people stopped phoning locations and started phoning people. >> > >> > Yup. You've neatly summed up the horror. >> >> Which is why there are about five people in the world who know my mobile >> number, and four of them are family. > > Just in case anyone else needs Jim's mobile, it's > 074x.argh!.$^Fbzzt___________________ NO CARRIER iECM really is pretty good. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash. |