Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)
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Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)
Which was there first?
Cell Phone
vs.
Bar Code (UPC) looks like this: (No Google)
Cell Phone
vs.
Bar Code (UPC) looks like this: (No Google)
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Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)
Do radio phones count in this? Like walkie talkies hooked up to the landline system? Radio phones way before UPC codes. But I am guessing that doesn't count as a real cellphone.
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Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)
we had one of those huge bagphones at one point.
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Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)
No, sorry. True cell phones is this one. The phone, which was a prototype of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, is nothing like the smartphone you own today. It weighed nearly two and a half pounds, was over a foot in length, offered 30 minutes of talk-time and took 10 hours to charge.Farrier1987 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 13, 2018 6:31 pmDo radio phones count in this? Like walkie talkies hooked up to the landline system? Radio phones way before UPC codes. But I am guessing that doesn't count as a real cellphone.
According to my source.....
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Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)
Funny thing, they put a few antennas on the Frankfurt equivalent of the CN tower that can handle 250! of those phones at once, but with a good range of ALL of Frankfurt (~GTA???). The thinking was: Who would need it and wanted to buy one?
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's why we now have cell towers everywhere that don't have a huge range but can handle about a thousand at once.
Map of cell phone towers in Canada (all providers)
https://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/cancellsites.html
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Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)
UPC was patented 1952
Cell phone 1973
Cell phone 1973
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