[GreenKeys] Close enough?

[tony.podrasky]

GM Jim & al;

Yeah - and I remember when every kid in the neighborhood could
make 50-cents to a couple of bucks, sweeping out the local
Mom-and-Pop shop, stacking stuff, running an item to some
body's house or a construction site.

No-one (I knew) was rich - be we all had some spending money
and no one's day was laid-off from a job he had for years.

--

Yeah: my Fujitsu Pocket-Commander, which costed around $5K
was the size of a dungenes crab - but the audio was great.

Now, with my Zippo-sized CP, the audio is terrible - like one
of those early 1-transistor radios back in the '50's.

And don't get me started on the "marvels of digital TV":

o signal drop-outs.
o speaking-to-mouth sync problems (like watching old foreign movies).
o artifacts.
o blurry pictures. I don't care what anybody says: I can tell a
   CRT picture from a digital picture no sweat: the movement is
   smooth and life-like.

One more thing:

Can anybody tell me why, when you dial the phone, you get this
wavering whistle that continues increasing in frequency until it
is out of my hearing bandwidth?

UE,
W6ESE - tony
NNNN
ZCZC

On 03/14/2013 08:05 AM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Sheldon Daitch wrote:
>>> "Remember Toll Quality? Now the gold standard is a hand held
> radio, which most people call a cell phone or mobile."
>>
> I have a saying, that if we still had the Old Bell Labs, your cell
> phone might be as big as a brick but you would not experience dropouts
> and people would be able to understand what you say on them.
>

-- 
Tony J. Podrasky | In the beginning, there was nothing.
                  | And God said, "Let there be Light".
                  | And there was still nothing.
                  | But you could see it a lot better.
                  |                    -Dave Weinstein