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davtruss t1_iu81bgo wrote

Yeah, that's about right. Wife bought me a "bag phone" in the early 90s. It was powered by the cigarette lighter, but tragically the receiver had a cord that connected to the base. Still, you could carry it around like lunch.

That's also about the time home phones began to have a mobile base with a receiver that had an antenna.

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0nSecondThought t1_iu8xy8s wrote

And the power was so high you could get a signal virtually anywhere.

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