Oh, yes, the 49MHz wonder phones! What was even neater was that you could pick up those phones on your scanner radio and listen in on your neighbors' phone calls.
Ha! Thought I recognized that area code! Grew up in Denton, TX. Ah, the good ol days when there were more radio shacks in town than McDonald's... I remember everyone was a lot leaner/healthier back then too. Sad.
Ah the good ol' trs-80, get down to the last 3 lines of 3 pages of programming to watch a dot matrix rocket take off on screen only to be met with: (?) out of mem! Fffffuuuuuukkkkkk!
I remember my dad buying one of these. He used that thing well into the 90's and the only reason he stopped using it is because my mother bought him a new "modern" cordless phone. All he did was gripe about how the new one wasn't as good as the old one.
I'm thinking about scoring one of these technologically-advanced bad boys myself. It's time I move up from my black rotary desk-phone.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, the 49MHz wonder phones! What was even neater was that you could pick up those phones on your scanner radio and listen in on your neighbors' phone calls.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the good old days!
Two hundred and twenty bucks? YIKES!
ReplyDeleteProbably $2k in today's money...
DeleteI'm still saving up so I can buy a cassette data recorder to back up my TRS-80 computer files.
DeleteI just ran it thru the ol' inflation calculator. That's $809.25 in todays dollars.
DeleteHOLY YIKES!
Ha! Thought I recognized that area code! Grew up in Denton, TX. Ah, the good ol days when there were more radio shacks in town than McDonald's... I remember everyone was a lot leaner/healthier back then too. Sad.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna hold off until they come out with a more modern design and I get bigger pockets to carry it in.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
Used to hit up RS all the time for stuff, phones being one of them.
ReplyDeleteI miss that store. The 60/120/200-in-1 kits, the TRS (trash) 80 computers at the start of the personal computing era...
ReplyDeleteAh the good ol' trs-80, get down to the last 3 lines of 3 pages of programming to watch a dot matrix rocket take off on screen only to be met with: (?) out of mem! Fffffuuuuuukkkkkk!
DeleteBack then it was the thing to memorize all the phone numbers you used. Today people barely remember their own number.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I do know my cell number I almost always get the phone out and double check it before giving it out.
DeleteJD
I remember my dad buying one of these. He used that thing well into the 90's and the only reason he stopped using it is because my mother bought him a new "modern" cordless phone. All he did was gripe about how the new one wasn't as good as the old one.
ReplyDeleteWhat'll they think of next???
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