Seeing as we are having a mulitple phone thread this week................
We didn't worry about all the crap and hype which goes on today with phones.
We drove thousands of kilometres in to the known and unknown, without a worry in the world.
You used to hold the mouthpiece down, stir the handle to the right a few times, and then put the hearding device to your ear.....and then wait for a few seconds when a friend(or grumpy) voice would ask of you. Number Please?
On many occasion the telefonist would tell you that the person you were calling had gone on holidays or was away for the day.
On party lines(mainly
farm lines) your telephone had a particular ring to answer. Our
farm's ringtone was two shorts and two longs.
It was an open line with about 20 customers who could listen in(although that was not allowed!!! but it happened all the time) at will. If you wanted to make a call you would pick the receiver up, put it to you ear and ask Line Busy? If there was silence you were free to call.
Then came the auto dial phone. Pick up the receiver, wait for the dial tone, and away you go. Eight digit numbers took forever!!
Then came push button phones....much easier.
The Americans had mobile phones long before us but around the mid 1980's the Bag Phone(like a bag of tools) appeared here.
Then came Analogue mobile phones. Hand held and the size of a small toolkit. They were clear and brilliant. But our phone system went inmto overload and Digital signals was the answer.
Then came GSM
Then came CDMA, which worked quite
well.....
And then................................the whole shebang started falling in a heap with Next G.......LOL
MEANWHILE....with a
population of 20,000 000 in Oz we apparently own 20,000,000 mobile phones. Most youngsters and some not so youngsters walk around with devices hooked up to their ears.....................Cheeeezes!!!!!
What Next???????
Cheers