Back before cellphones
Remember the rows of pay phones campgrounds had near the office? Phone calls when you changed campgrounds and periodically so people back home could get in touch if they had to. It was nothing to be o...
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darkmind25 wrote:
I remember owning pagers and a Motorola MicroTAC cellphone.
I had a StarTAC that I hated. Job required I carry it and have it on at all times, but absolutely prohibited from using it for anything personal. I setup my desk phone at work to forward to my wife’s phone and I’d call her from the West Coast early so the minutes didn’t count and no one was the wiser. My boss wanted me to call in to a 3 hour meeting once. I told him I was in a roaming area and he wanted me to call in anyway I can’t remember whether that call itself cost $1600 or that was the total bill, but he had some splainin’ to do.
