3 Apr
2023
3 Apr
'23
6:15 a.m.
On April 3, 1973 the first wireless phone call was made and Moore’s Law has
now led to the smart-phone being ubiquitous to our lives: Computer
technology and cell phone technology marching hand-in-hand.
Happy computing and talking about it!
Murray 🙂
3 Apr
3 Apr
6:23 a.m.
That would be cell phone, right? Wireless phones have been around for much longer, but
those earlier ones weren't cellular. The key innovation is seamless handoff between
cells, as opposed to the call being tied to a particular base station for the duration.
paul
On Apr 3, 2023, at 9:15 AM, Murray McCullough via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On April 3, 1973 the first wireless phone call was made and Moore’s Law has
now led to the smart-phone being ubiquitous to our lives: Computer
technology and cell phone technology marching hand-in-hand.
Happy computing and talking about it!
Murray 🙂
8:41 a.m.
Marty's book is pretty good...
https://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Cord-Phone-Transformed-Humanity/dp/194812274X
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 8:23 AM Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
That would be cell phone, right? Wireless phones have been around for much longer, but
those earlier ones weren't cellular. The key innovation is seamless handoff between
cells, as opposed to the call being tied to a particular base station for the duration.
paul
On Apr 3, 2023, at 9:15 AM, Murray McCullough via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On April 3, 1973 the first wireless phone call was made and Moore’s Law has
now led to the smart-phone being ubiquitous to our lives: Computer
technology and cell phone technology marching hand-in-hand.
Happy computing and talking about it!
Murray 🙂
8:46 a.m.
Aww the mts phones still find a few places in the world that use em still
Had one at my cabin till that got shut down in 2006 here In manitoba.
Also got one of the ones sherritt exploration had with a range that would
reach to the operator in selkirk from lynn lake mb
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 8:23 a.m. Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
That would be cell phone, right? Wireless phones have
been around for
much longer, but those earlier ones weren't cellular. The key innovation
is seamless handoff between cells, as opposed to the call being tied to a
particular base station for the duration.
paul
On Apr 3, 2023, at 9:15 AM, Murray McCullough via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On April 3, 1973 the first wireless phone call was made and Moore’s Law
has
now led to the smart-phone being ubiquitous to
our lives: Computer
technology and cell phone technology marching hand-in-hand.
Happy computing and talking about it!
Murray 🙂
9:35 a.m.
On 4/3/23 08:46, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
Aww the mts phones still find a few places in the
world that use em still
Up until wide deployment of cellular communications, you could find an
MTS phone in most Real Estate agent's cars locally.
Recall also, at about this date, Philippe Kahn sent the first photo via
cellphone in 1997.
--Chuck
9:39 a.m.
On 2023-04-03 7:15 a.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
On April 3, 1973 the first wireless phone call was
made and Moore’s Law has
now led to the smart-phone being ubiquitous to our lives: Computer
technology and cell phone technology marching hand-in-hand.
Happy computing and talking about it!
Murray 🙂
I disagree, I decided to buy new computer game after about 20 years.
The last game I played was Tomb Raider I. I like the explore type rather
than the RPG games. Being muilt-platform the game has over 20 keys
that map to game pad rather than keyboard.
The game pad is more important the cell phone. If you can't play games
(or in my case save the game) what use is the phone or a computer.
I miss games like ADVERTURE.
Ben.
8 Apr
8 Apr
7:27 a.m.
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 9:40 AM ben via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I disagree, I decided to buy new computer game after about 20 years.
The last game I played was Tomb Raider I. I like the explore type rather
than the RPG games. Being muilt-platform the game has over 20 keys
that map to game pad rather than keyboard.
The game pad is more important the cell phone. If you can't play games
(or in my case save the game) what use is the phone or a computer.
I miss games like ADVERTURE.
Ben.
In that case the cable coming out of the gamepad is more important than the
gamepad itself because without the cable the signals from your fingers will
never get to the computer.
No, I'm not serious, and neither so do I take the assertion above. My claim
is meant to be as dumb as Ben's.
Sellam
10:14 a.m.
On 2023-04-08 8:27 a.m., Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 9:40 AM ben via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Well for stupid stuff, I claim the Smart phone is not needed at all.
Just all marketing by APPLE and JAPAN. I think more game pads have sold
than smart phones. You are half right, you can by a new game pad but will
it plug in to the old machine, like a C64.
Ben.
PS: Mobile phones have long been around,as analog devices,for those that
really need them.
PPS. I have two phones and they have bell and number pad and a long cord.
PPPS. The same goes for wifi, not really needed since the USB no
computer had real I/O devices to connect mice,printers,networks.
I disagree, I decided to buy new computer game after about 20 years.
The last game I played was Tomb Raider I. I like the explore type rather
than the RPG games. Being muilt-platform the game has over 20 keys
that map to game pad rather than keyboard.
The game pad is more important the cell phone. If you can't play games
(or in my case save the game) what use is the phone or a computer.
I miss games like ADVERTURE.
Ben.
In that case the cable coming out of the gamepad is more important than the
gamepad itself because without the cable the signals from your fingers will
never get to the computer.
No, I'm not serious, and neither so do I take the assertion above. My claim
is meant to be as dumb as Ben's.
Sellam 
8:30 p.m.
In the 1980's Annie, didn't Oliver Warbucks have a phone in his helicopter
car from the 1930s? Maybe I'm remembering it wrong.
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 12:14 PM ben via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 2023-04-08 8:27 a.m., Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
the
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 9:40 AM ben via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
>
> I disagree, I decided to buy new computer game after about 20 years.
> The last game I played was Tomb Raider I. I like the explore type rather
> than the RPG games. Being muilt-platform the game has over 20 keys
> that map to game pad rather than keyboard.
> The game pad is more important the cell phone. If you can't play
games
(or in my
case save the game) what use is the phone or a computer.
I miss games like ADVERTURE.
Ben.
In that case the cable coming out of the gamepad is more important than
gamepad itself because without the cable the
signals from your fingers
will
never get to the computer.
No, I'm not serious, and neither so do I take the assertion above. My
claim
is meant to be as dumb as Ben's.
Sellam
Well for stupid stuff, I claim the Smart phone is not needed at all.
Just all marketing by APPLE and JAPAN. I think more game pads have sold
than smart phones. You are half right, you can by a new game pad but will
it plug in to the old machine, like a C64.
Ben.
PS: Mobile phones have long been around,as analog devices,for those that
really need them.
PPS. I have two phones and they have bell and number pad and a long cord.
PPPS. The same goes for wifi, not really needed since the USB no
computer had real I/O devices to connect mice,printers,networks.
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