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  • OT Using a Radio Shack emergency device 35 years later.

    From micky@NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com to comp.mobile.android on Mon Oct 20 15:42:19 2025
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    OT but related to the OnT post I just made.

    About 35 years ago, for my mother with the thought that if she didn't
    use it, I coudl use it later, I bought from Radio Shack and emergency
    phone that one wore around his neck. It wasn't actually a phone. It communicated with a base station in one's own home, which connected to
    your phone line and would call a series of 3 numbers you chose,
    including 911, and it probably played a message.

    What are the odds... just typing helps me think. Even though I now have
    Verizon VOIP I have a real phone plugged into it. It will take any
    Western Electric phone, so I've run out of space on my desk but I should
    be able to use that if 35 years in what used to be a dry basement but
    whhich has had some big floods followed by some mold, hasn't hurt it.

    I wonder if ebay has these things for people who don't want to pay 29 to 40/month, 340+ a year for 10 minutes of their time.
    (I realize some of this money goes to the cellular company for the
    phone connection, but probably less than the 15 I pay since they are
    buying in bulk.)
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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@hugybear@gmx.net to comp.mobile.android on Mon Oct 20 21:58:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.mobile.android

    On 20.10.25 21:42, micky wrote:
    OT but related to the OnT post I just made.

    About 35 years ago, for my mother with the thought that if she didn't
    use it, I coudl use it later, I bought from Radio Shack and emergency
    phone that one wore around his neck. It wasn't actually a phone. It communicated with a base station in one's own home, which connected to
    your phone line and would call a series of 3 numbers you chose,
    including 911, and it probably played a message.

    What are the odds... just typing helps me think. Even though I now have Verizon VOIP I have a real phone plugged into it. It will take any
    Western Electric phone, so I've run out of space on my desk but I should
    be able to use that if 35 years in what used to be a dry basement but
    whhich has had some big floods followed by some mold, hasn't hurt it.

    I wonder if ebay has these things for people who don't want to pay 29 to 40/month, 340+ a year for 10 minutes of their time.
    (I realize some of this money goes to the cellular company for the
    phone connection, but probably less than the 15 I pay since they are
    buying in bulk.)

    What the fuck has this senile story to do with Android?
    --
    "De gustibus non est disputandum."
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