28 May
2024
28 May
'24
6:28 p.m.
On 5/28/24 10:00, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
Au crontraire, I belive the first mobile phones were
mostly purchased by corporations for their executives to use, if the executive left, the
phone stayed with the corporation. Early mobile phones were NOT personal devices.
In 1971 or 1972 I was in the Washington DC airport executive
lounge. Dolly Parton was in there, she had two gofers
getting her coffee and stuff, and she had a large "bag
phone" that she was on a lot of the time, presumably making
arrangements for shows. This was a square-cornered hard bag
with a shoulder strap, and there was an old-style handset
with a coil cord connected to it. The bag was something
like 10 by 8 x 4" and appeared to be quite heavy. I am
pretty sure the thing was "personal" to her.
Jon