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Is that the same thing as "party lines"? I'm curious how many channels they could operate at once.
by dmix 4y ago
Is that the same thing as "party lines"? I'm curious how many channels they could operate at once.
- homero 4y agoNo it was like a CB radio over a large city or area. There were only a handful of channels. It wasn't a "cell" phone. It was like a walkie talkie. The cell part came later.
- idatum 4y agoOr maybe like farmers using electrified barbed-wire fences to chat? Like Claude Shannon used in his youth! Came across this in a bio on Shannon I read recently. And here we are now.
- homero 4y agoNow that sounds like telegraph
- zikduruqe 4y agoIMTS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improved_Mobile_Telephone_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improved_Mobile_Telephone_Serv... We used to hack the local system as a youth and make free calls.