[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] cell phones

[Michael Harris]

An old friend, Charles Galley, started and (I think) still runs this place:
https://www.acadiavisitor.com/telephone-museum-lets-you-put-the-call-through/

> On Oct 17, 2020, at 12:29 PM, Paul Garmon <paul.garmon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 7:58 PM john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Re: cell phones
>>   <video>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Had a very busy week, but I finally got around to watching that "cell phone" video just now.  Hahahaha.  Thanks John!  [Maybe try to send links where possible and not multi-megabyte movies (yes, you can fill up GMail, but it takes a while, and I hate to delete things)].  It almost looks staged, but I can imagine that things (like typewriters) are just alien until you are familiar with them, which may be why it's sometimes hard to teach things when there's no frame of reference.  Anyway, the big problem I had with that video is that all of us cool folks have had touch-tone phones since the mid-1960s (and could have even tried a video phone if you were at the World's Fair back then!).  [see: The Charade of the Touch-Tone Service Fee - Los Angeles Times] Anyone who is still actively using a dial phone is either a slow-adopter or overly frugal (and is likely also still running Windows 95 [we won't discuss Win 3.1, OK?] or, to be fair, MacOS 6?).
> 
> BTW, I still have about 15 different phones (no true antiques, these are all from 1960s onward), including multi-line (with the old Centronics style connectors!).  I can rent any of them for $10/day, if you're interested! 🤑  Wish I still had my mom & dad's matching princess touch-tone phones from the 1960s (and no, I'm not going to buy some on ebay!).
> 
> However, I was thinking of donating some (assuming they want any) to the Telephone Museum in Waltham (well, at least before the pandemic struck):
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>    "Telephone Museum, Moody Street, Waltham, MA"   ©2019 Paul Garmon Photography
> 
> FCC: Landlines Will Only Exist Another 5-10 Years, AT&T Wants Out by 2020
>  [they've killed off old analog/digital cell services [2G] far faster than rotary & Touch-Tone™ phones!]
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 11:15 AM George Gamota <ggamota at stma-llc.com> wrote:
>> I made sure that initially my 3 sons learned to drive on a car equipped with a stick shift, and now my 3 grandsons know how to drive a car with a stick shift. In fact the oldest grandson bought a used car with a stick shift. They are fun to drive and I always rent a car when in Europe with a stick shift.
> 
> Well, how about the manual shift ON THE STEERING COLUMN?  Way harder, if you don't already know how, IMHO! 😂
> What Happened To Column Shifters? - Seatco
>   [makes me seriously miss my old car with the 6-speed manual -- on the floor]
> 
> Well, it's looking like a beautiful day out after our needed rain, so time for me to stop being inside on my computer (in 10 years no one will know what a computer is either: "what, you didn't all have tele/cell-watches?").
> 
> 
> Paul
>  [the other one ;]
> 
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