"Mark" <captain.black@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I need to find a late-eighties mobile (working/non-working/display)...
> What make/model should I look for?
> Cheers ... Mark
>
Late 80's, 900MHz TAC analogue... umm... Nokia 101
it would just about go inside a coat pocket.
Maybe a Motorola 8800 brick, although every 80's phone museum
has one of those, with a picture of a Yuppie waving one around
In article <0001HW.C45BAA7500551C03F0386530@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk>, captain.black@gmail.com says...
> I need to find a late-eighties mobile (working/non-working/display)...
>
> What make/model should I look for?
>
> Cheers ... Mark
Nokia 101, classic analogue phone with the pull-out antenna that
everyone pulled out with their teeth!
Make sure you get the extended battery so you can get 24h standby!
--
Regards
Jon
On Fri, 23 May 2008 01:02:57 +0100, Grant wrote
(in article <1211500980.32588.0@proxy02.news.clara.net>):
> Mark wrote:
>> I need to find a late-eighties mobile (working/non-working/display)...
>>
>> What make/model should I look for?
>
> http://www.retrobrick.com/
>
"Jon Parker" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> In article <0001HW.C45BAA7500551C03F0386530@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk>,
> captain.black@gmail.com says...
>> I need to find a late-eighties mobile (working/non-working/display)...
>> What make/model should I look for?
>> Cheers ... Mark
>
> Nokia 101, classic analogue phone with the pull-out antenna that
> everyone pulled out with their teeth!
>
That's right, good job the aerial could be replaced
>
> Make sure you get the extended battery so you can get 24h standby!
> Regards
> Jon
>
But with the extended battery you would have trouble getting it into
your pocket, so you had to trade off endurance against size/weight,
if you were only going out for half a day, or had access to say a
car charger you could getaway with the standard battery.
You tell youngsters that today and they wouldn't believe you.
> > Make sure you get the extended battery so you can get 24h standby!
> > Regards
> > Jon
> >
> But with the extended battery you would have trouble getting it into
> your pocket, so you had to trade off endurance against size/weight,
> if you were only going out for half a day, or had access to say a
> car charger you could getaway with the standard battery.
>
> You tell youngsters that today and they wouldn't believe you.
Heh, that's even worse than my Nokia 1610 was.
Don't think Mrs H's Sony 'Mars Bar' was much better, either.
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In article <1211500980.32588.0@proxy02.news.clara.net>,
Grant <news@mason.sh> wrote:
>Mark wrote:
>> I need to find a late-eighties mobile (working/non-working/display)...
>>
>> What make/model should I look for?
>
>http://www.retrobrick.com/
Nokia 9000 communicator - Retro!!! I have one still working...
"Gordon Henderson" <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> wrote in message
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> In article <1211500980.32588.0@proxy02.news.clara.net>,
> Grant <news@mason.sh> wrote:
>>Mark wrote:
>>> I need to find a late-eighties mobile (working/non-working/display)...
>>>
>>> What make/model should I look for?
>>
>>http://www.retrobrick.com/
>
> Nokia 9000 communicator - Retro!!! I have one still working...
> Gordon
>
Which part of late 80's did the 1998 Nokia 9000 GSM communicator come out?
"Adrian C" <email@here.invalid> wrote in message
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> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> Nokia 9000 communicator - Retro!!! I have one still working...
>
> Nah, Motorola International 2700 ...
>
> http://www.retrobrick.com/1000.html
>
> Looks like a brick, weights like a brick, and still works like a brick :-)
> Adrian C
>
1993 first generation GSM Brick
"Iain" <no-one@hairydog.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Steve Terry wrote:
>
>> Which part of late 80's did the 1998 Nokia 9000 GSM communicator come
>> out?
>
> I think you'll find that it came out in nineteen eighty eighteen.
> Iain
>
Or if you are French, Nineteen Sixty Twenty Eighteen.
(which i guess makes the communicator even older) ;-)
For some reason French can't count past Sixty-nine?
But apparently French speaking Belgiums and Swiss can!
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"Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
>
> "Iain" <no-one@hairydog.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1212687538.29829.0@proxy00.news.clara.net...
> > Steve Terry wrote:
> >
> >> Which part of late 80's did the 1998 Nokia 9000 GSM communicator come
> >> out?
> >
> > I think you'll find that it came out in nineteen eighty eighteen.
> > Iain
> >
> Or if you are French, Nineteen Sixty Twenty Eighteen.
?????????
How about nineteen hundred four twenties ten eight?
"Dave Higton" <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> In message <g29bae$uha$1@news.albasani.net>
> "Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Iain" <no-one@hairydog.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1212687538.29829.0@proxy00.news.clara.net...
>> > Steve Terry wrote:
>> >
>> >> Which part of late 80's did the 1998 Nokia 9000 GSM communicator come
>> >> out?
>> >
>> > I think you'll find that it came out in nineteen eighty eighteen.
>> > Iain
>> >
>> Or if you are French, Nineteen Sixty Twenty Eighteen.
>
> ?????????
>
> How about nineteen hundred four twenties ten eight?
> Dave
>
Umm yes, that's what I meant, but why don't they have words for 70, 80 and
90?
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:19:55 +0100, Steve Terry wrote:
> Umm yes, that's what I meant, but why don't they have words for 70, 80 and
> 90?
Because they're not Belgian.
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"Phil Reynolds" <phil-news@tinsleyviaduct.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:19:55 +0100, Steve Terry wrote:
>> Umm yes, that's what I meant, but why don't they have words for 70, 80
>> and
>> 90?
>
> Because they're not Belgian.
>
Of course, i knew there had to be a reason
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> "Dave Higton" <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> > In message <g29bae$uha$1@news.albasani.net>
> > "Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "Iain" <no-one@hairydog.co.uk> wrote in message
> >> news:1212687538.29829.0@proxy00.news.clara.net...
> >> > Steve Terry wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Which part of late 80's did the 1998 Nokia 9000 GSM communicator come
> >> >> out?
> >> >
> >> > I think you'll find that it came out in nineteen eighty eighteen.
> >> > Iain
> >> >
> >> Or if you are French, Nineteen Sixty Twenty Eighteen.
> >
> > ?????????
> >
> > How about nineteen hundred four twenties ten eight?
> > Dave
> >
> Umm yes, that's what I meant, but why don't they have words for 70, 80 and
> 90?
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Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> In message <g29lb2$jg8$2@news.albasani.net>
> "Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > "Dave Higton" <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
> > news:1688d9aa4f.davehigton@dsl.pipex.com...
> > > In message <g29bae$uha$1@news.albasani.net>
> > > "Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > "Iain" <no-one@hairydog.co.uk> wrote in message
> > > > news:1212687538.29829.0@proxy00.news.clara.net...
> > > > > Steve Terry wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Which part of late 80's did the 1998 Nokia 9000 GSM communicator
> > > > > > come out?
> > > > >
> > > > > I think you'll find that it came out in nineteen eighty eighteen.
> > > > > Iain
> > > > >
> > > > Or if you are French, Nineteen Sixty Twenty Eighteen.
> > >
> > > ?????????
> > >
> > > How about nineteen hundred four twenties ten eight? Dave
> > >
> > Umm yes, that's what I meant, but why don't they have words for 70, 80
> > and 90?
>
> Ah, the joys of natural language.
It does remind me of the old phrase "three score and ten". In
turn this makes me wonder when the word "seventy" was invented.
Were big numbers invented any later than little numbers? Did
they reflect man's ability to count, which presumably to most
people wouldn't matter very much, hundreds of years ago?
mobile circa 1988-1990? 
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