seanbonner: Old Wireless Tech Wanted

May 28, 2004

Old Wireless Tech Wanted

While watching a documentary from 93 last night where people were running around with giant brick cell phones I decided I need to start collecting these things and make some kind of archive of them. If you have one of these things sitting in the closet somewhere let me know. Actually, I'm expanding this to any kind of old school gadgetry - old pagers, original PDAs, but really old cell phones are going to be the focus.

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I locked myself out of my car in madison WI about 2 years ago, and the guy who came to help me had one of theose old brick phones he was still using. It was so frickin' amazing to me that it made me happy again.

Posted by: Drew on May 28, 2004 01:24 PM

I remember laughing at the "X-Files" episode "Unusual Suspects" (fifth season), specifically when Fox Mulder was talking on a similar brick of a cell phone.

As for me, I've been collecting videogame systems and videogames. Fun stuff, particularly when you find gems like a Vectrex that's brand new and still in-the-box. ^_^

Posted by: Koganuts on May 28, 2004 01:43 PM

Good stuff! My dad still uses a bag phone, circa 1994. This thing weighs about 10 pounds total, and the phone itself is still brick-sized. He must have bought one of the first non-auto cell phones ever made; of course, he's not exactly cutting edge, so he probably bought the last phone is a discontinued product line 3 years after the 1st one came out. Contact me if you're interested in this piece of living history.

Posted by: Jacob Rome on May 28, 2004 06:13 PM

i still have my radio shack "brick phone" and i've dropped it a dozen times and it still works! try that with a new $100 flip-phone!

Posted by: nick spezio on May 28, 2004 08:57 PM

I have two or three of these with chargers, batteries and even a car cord. Where do you want them sent?

Posted by: Klay Anderson on May 29, 2004 07:51 AM

i have a similar interest in these phones. I plan to gut one of these and insert a modern, tiny GSM phone, wired to the keypad/speakers.

Posted by: todd on June 3, 2004 07:24 AM

Has any one gutted the brick and installed modern mobile phone parts. If so how is it done.

Posted by: Stewart on October 13, 2004 04:42 AM