Well we all love the classic favourite "Brick phone"
(bad pics teken with Nokia 6275 as I cannot find real camera's charger! I'm buying a camera that takes regular AA's next time)
SEE! it's just massive.
Motorola brick sitting in intellicharge. (thanks NZBNW)
Wells it's just TOO portable.
This beast would give you a very sore arm rather quickly.
(1987 Mitsubish "Transportable") with Motorola brick on top. (thanks NZBNW)
Not big enough huh?
If there was one phone that makes any phone look "ultra sleek" then this is it.
(1967 Motorola Car Telephone that runs on a 16 channel Full Duplex system IMTS)
it's not the "brick" it's the original PAVING SLAB!
Circuitry is fully discreet! it was "fully transitorized" as most systems back then were still valve based.
This sucker is built like the Apollo 11 stuff, It's all shock mounted, through-hole eyelet and double redundancy PCB. The foam and casing has deteriorated over time but the internals look brand new.
This beast is Pre-cellular, but it was the first system to support direct dialling and full duplex operation just like a "real" telephone. Motorola have a sole old yellowed stock picture of one on their website but I'm wondering if there are any other actual devices around anywhere?
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...At school, that is.
Every year, we take all our books etc to school for day one. Every year we take our art pack on the first day. (Every year our art pack is more expensive - what happened to last year's equipment???) Every year Art is NOT on the first day... (Three out of three years in a row...)
So far we have a South African english teacher with a weird name and even weirder/warped sense of humour. At least the boy thinks he's ok. Apparently he gave up a job as Principal to come to NZ to teach the wonderful students at 'The name is changed to protect us from legal proceedings' High. So no complaints after one lesson.
We don't have the head of the science department nor last year's teacher. Yay. Actually the 'Head' is quite lucky he doesn't have the boy!
We didn't bunk, as far as I know.
('Mum, how do you expect me to remember everything. I don't know who my teachers are.' Should I be suspicious?)
Didn't see any signs of fighting. Nup.
The hair gel didn't work - no spikes. How sad.
We were actually home (and answered the phone) when the mother rang at 4.30, requesting the leg of lamb be put in the oven, which was to be put on 350 degrees. (Very good, it is farenheit!) We listened very carefully to the mother's instructions - where to find the roasting dish and all...
We made an excellent joke about it being a small lamb, seeing that it fitted in the fridge.
Too bad we forgot to actually put the roast in the oven.
And that, gentlemen and ladies, is what fathers are for...
I recall that when I got my first computer, a C=64 and the 1st time I saw the message,"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
If you don't know the C=64 Keyboard, it has three layers of keys. So each key had the standard character + two symbols. It took a few seconds before I realised that my computer didn't have a "ANY" key hidden and it was meaning any key at all.
This made me think, as I had my morning coffee, how cool it would be to have keys like that, based around a programming language. Keys like AND NOT, well the basic logic instructions, would it have made programming easer. Then I had some cake, looked a buda and thought up a fake interview...
Reporter to Nintendo, "Some say the DS is stealing peoples Souls."
Nintendo replies "Don't worry you will get it on a higher level"
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