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Originally Posted by MKSixer
Whippersnappers! They have no idea how easy they have it. Maybe we should revert back to that technology to regain a foothold on our youth!
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Can you imagine the bill they could run up at the going rate of $0.85/minute for airtime back in the day...plus the ground call charge!
I had a Globalstar satellite phone for six years a while back, and that was $1.49/minute to use with something like 30 free minutes per month. (My DW was doing field work in some pretty remote areas, and I would have gladly paid $25.29/minute if she needed help!) It was fun to use from cruise ships at sea, when using the on-board satellite cellular link was over $2.00/minute.
In the 1990's, we had a Skycell geostationary satellite phone in the One Lap of America car, as a sponsorship deal since we were running a huge press campaign from the road for a worthy cause. That phone had its own 800 number, and the going rate for satellite time was $2.49/minute. Fun times making calls from the desert with that thing.
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Originally Posted by UncleWede
And rotary TV channel changers
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Does anyone need tuner cleaner? I still have an old spray can of the stuff in the bottom drawer of my toolbox.
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Originally Posted by cmyx6go
I was my father’s remote control. 2,4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 and repeat. Twist that dial.
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What? No
WHT on channel 68? How did you get your daily Uncle Floyd fix?
Although now moving into the realm of the old farts thread, I actually wrote a state grant when I was in high school back in the late 1970's to buy four blank VHS tapes for the school...at their 1970's retail price of $49.99 each!!!!!