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38 years ago he made the first cell phone call

• lanstein 16y ago
  Just checked, it's the same Bob Greene who wrote a couple of great books on Michael Jordan.
  • joezydeco 16y ago
    Yup, the same Bob Greene that nobody in Chicago really misses anymore. http://goo.gl/rcjUo http://goo.gl/rcjUo (Spy Magazine Dec '88 via Google Reader)
• mayukh 16y ago
  Saw a segment about Martin Cooper on 60 minutes. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6512514n&tag=related;photovideo http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6512514n&tag=rela... The guy is probably over 80 years old today, but is still in pretty good shape.
• greenyoda 16y ago
  "Think how the Bell Labs research engineer must have felt when he heard Cooper calling him from the noisy streets of Manhattan." Getting a call from a noisy street could have hardly been rare at the time -- there used to be coin-operated phones all over Manhattan, and every other city. (In these days of cell phones, they're a bit harder to find, but still around.)