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Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
From: Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:35:34 -0500
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:30:52AM +0000, gordon b slater wrote:
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:42 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:Could the comment actually have been about pay telephones, which were once common in cities?Good point Bill, which, if so, would place the comment at or about the start of the cellfone introduction. @Jim, maybe it's more a telco/2600 thing?
found it, actually was once in my .signature: "The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used communications technology in the days before electronic mail. They're still easy to find in most large cities." -- Nathaniel Borenstein i'm guessing this is before the mobile phone explosion. -- Jim Mercer jim () reptiles org +92 336 520-4504 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
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- Re: ASR1002, (continued)
- Re: ASR1002 Bill Blackford (Jan 06)
- Re: ASR1002 Kenny Sallee (Jan 06)
- Re: ASR1002 NetYourLife2007 (Jan 18)
- Re: ASR1002 Randy Bush (Jan 19)
- Re: ASR1002 Jim Mercer (Jan 19)
- Re: ASR1002 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 19)
- Re: ASR1002 Randy Bush (Jan 19)
- Re: ASR1002 gordon b slater (Jan 19)
- OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Jim Mercer (Jan 19)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 gordon b slater (Jan 19)
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- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Jim Mercer (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 gordon b slater (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Jorge Amodio (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Mr. James W. Laferriere (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Mark Smith (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Randy Bush (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 William Hamilton (Jan 21)