[Cialug] Mobile Internet

[murraymckee at wellsfargo.com]

>Last night I was telling my daughter how when I was little if somebody
had a phone in their car (and it wasn't even cordless, it hung up on the
console or something) that we thought they were millionaires.  Now
anyone can have a phone in their car.

>She just stared at me.

>A lot like you are now.

>Sorry, I had to share.

My first cell phone was a repurposed car phone.  The handset was as big
as a 'princess' phone handset and the base it clipped to was bigger that
the princess base.  The 12V gel cell battery was 1" X 5" X 10".  The
whole thing was in a bag the size of a lunch box.  The one advantage to
the phone was that while most phones were .5 or .75 watts, this one was
4.5 watts and I could get a signal where nobody else could get one.
Which was why I bought that one.  When I get stuck farming, it was never
at the top of the hill where there was a good signal, but at the bottom
of the hill where there wasn't a signal.  My tractor or combine didn't
care if the phone sitting on the floor was 5 ozs or 5 lbs.

Murray McKee 
Operating Systems Engineer
WFFIS - Wells Fargo Financial Information Systems 
800 Walnut Street
MAC F4030-037
Des Moines, IA 50309-3605
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