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Monday, April 3, 2023

Beginning Of The End?

First Cell 'Phone Call Made Fifty Yrs. Ago Today

Of course this putz (V.P. of Sales, no doubt.) isn't the guy who made the first "public" cell call, he's just the guy who had his picture taken.
Motorola vice president John F. Mitchell shows how easily the company's newest product,
the Dyna T-A-C Portable Radio Telephone System, can be used in New York, NY, on 3 April 1973.
Bettmann/Getty Images
Still took 10 yrs. to roll them out get them to the consuming masses sheep. 

CNN Beesniss, if you give more of a crap. 

Not unrelated: Abandoned pay 'phones, photographed for L.A. Taco.
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2 comments:

  1. Ten Bears04 April, 2023 10:39

    No need for a 666 chip, got one in your pocket!

    ReplyDelete
  2. M. Bouffant04 April, 2023 15:18

    Low Tech Editor:
    Mine hasn't worked for a month or so, & I'm too broke/cheap to have it repaired. Life is much the same.

    See tomorrow's Blog Round-Up for more on the 666 possibilities.

    ReplyDelete

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