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Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:35 am
by poultry_admin
Which was there first?
Cell Phone
vs.
Bar Code (UPC) looks like this:
UPC.png
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(No Google)

Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 6:31 pm
by Farrier1987
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.

Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:09 pm
by Killerbunny
we had one of those huge bagphones at one point.

Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:48 pm
by poultry_admin
Farrier1987 wrote:
Fri Jul 13, 2018 6:31 pm
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.
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.
According to my source.....

Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:00 pm
by poultry_admin
Killerbunny wrote:
Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:09 pm
we had one of those huge bagphones at one point.
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

Re: Chicken or Egg (Cell Phone vs. Bar Code)

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:00 pm
by poultry_admin
UPC was patented 1952
Cell phone 1973