Reading this thread drives home how much I am on the "trailing edge" of technology. While I have DSL which was made available here a few years back, cell-phones won't work in my town in central Manitoba, only in an area about 2 mi. out of town. There's a telephone tower right in the center of my village relaying messages across the country just across the street from me, which emits a menacing hum in the early hours of the morning, which I've always suspected as being to blame.
I'm a total cherry on cell-phones and don't like the subscription price in any case. I have a Nokia 601 and a couple of years after I moved up here in 2001 I found that most of the province was served by analogue for mobile phones with only the main towns and cities being served by more short-range cell-phone emitters.
I managed to get codes from some hacker site and found the Nokia worked getting free obligatory SOS dialing but balked at the charges for mobile connection and service. I figured I could use payphones on a trip to Vancouver much cheaper. That was my last dabble with this technology.
The MTS has since changed over and mobile phone seems to be dead, altho rotary phones can still be used up here.
Of course being the techno packrat I am, I have a Tandy model 17-1003 like the one in the U-tube video, with power-pac and car charger, the 601, an old taxi transmitter, and a handset and mounting from another set which has the same plug-in as the 601 but obviously older.
Damn it's all going too much faster than my fading memory cells can keep up with. C'mon Mike what are you using. An old secret Tibetian formula, Stem cells from virgins, or simply some exotic strain of Ginko Beluba ?
By the way are any of these analogue devices actually valuable ?
The original DynaTAC bricks are real collectors items.
The real gold are the original cell phones, like the Tandy cell phone I own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=694TX2lQ7Uo
Oh god. it weighs a ton.
Lawrence
