You must be REAL old!!!

John

"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> "John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:h2vvcu02sjd@news6.newsguy.com:
>
>> I'll bet in your early ET days you never thought we would be rebooting
>> batteries. I never would have thought so.
>>
>>
>>
>
> hee hee....we rebooted lots of batteries. They're strewn on the seabed
> floor for some future archeologist to turn into a government grant he can
> bottom feed off of.
>
> I remember when a 12 pound, OD Green battery would make about 5 minutes of
> transmit before another 12 pound, OD Green battery would be replacing it.
>
> Of course, that was true in my "Carphone", too. When you pressed the dial
> button on one of the 8 channels, you could hear the motor-generator high
> voltage power supply winding up in the trunk, added to the vibrator supply
> the receiver was using.....(c;]
>
> At least now we can make phone calls WITHOUT the engine running....
>
>
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> -----
> Larry
>
> Noone will be safe until the last lawyer has been strangled by the
> entrails
> of the last cleric.
>