Re: Apple is getting sued over iPhone concepts by Minerva Industries !

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:fnbd2s$i35$1
@aioe.org:

> At 24 Jan 2008 16:21:11 -0800 4phun wrote:
>> Apple is getting sued over iPhone concepts. Minerva Industries served
>> papers to Apple and satellite phone company Atlantic RT for patent
>> infringement entitled "Mobile Entertainment and Communication
Device,"
>> where the company was recently awarded the United Sates patent No.
>> 7,321,783 - beating out both firms.
>
>
> Hmm. I think RadioShack should sue everyone then- when I was a child,
I
> had a toy channel-14 Walkie-Talkie with an AM transistor radio built
in.
> Truly the first "mobile entertainment and communication device!" ;-)
>
>
>

Mine was in 1956, I was 10. There was a real transistor radio kit sold
for $12.95 in Popular Science magazine, in the back in the little ads.
I begged and begged my father to buy it for me. The transistor was
Raytheon's CK-722:
http://www.ck722museum.com/
There's one in the Smithsonian. It's a piece of history.
My kit had 2 transistors:
http://www.ck722museum.com/page44.html
This kit was an earlier model. Mine had a red plastic box and crystal
earphone and ran off two aa or aaa cells. The CK718s, like it says,
were only sold to hearing aid manufacturers, but the CK722 was in my
kit, in a bright blue plastic mount with 3 tiny wires coming out the
bottom. A red dot showed you where the emitter was. Like the tubes, it
plugged into a little socket like it shows because soldering then
destroyed them.

When I was 11-12, I used to build Heathkit CB walkie talkie kits:
Heath GW-30. They were $20 when they first came out, a 4-transistor
superregen transceiver that ran off an expensive 9V big battery:
http://www.retrocom.com/ad's&fly...20&%20CB-1.jpg
No squelch. It sounded like Niagara Falls listening to its ONE dead
channel. We thought it was simply wonderful. Every kid brought me his
to build...(c;

The C-5 CB base under it I built, too. It only had one crystal socket,
so you laid out your channel crystals on a piece of paper with each
crystal labeled so you could swap the front-mounted crystals fast when
one of the rich smart asses with a Globe or Gonset with a channel switch
wanted to change channels....(c; It sounded like Niagara Falls because
it's tubes were a regen receiver, too. On its better antenna, you heard
about 3 channels simultaneously if it was busy.

Really rich people had Browning Golden Eagles.....
http://www.retrocom.com/ad's&fly...EN%20EAGLE.jpg

CB started in 1957. You had to be 18 to get a license. I got one,
anyway, as I already had a ham license when I was 11. My mother was
terrified I was going to be mistakenly DRAFTED for the Army...(c;