From: hugybear@gmx.net   
      
   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?   
      
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