Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Ede Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Marketing/Future Capacity and Old Calculators Message-ID: <11202@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 22 Aug 90 13:14:43 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 29 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 586, Message 10 of 11 In article <11111@accuvax.nwu.edu> jill@midway.uchicago.edu (jill holly hansen) writes: >In a few years, cell phones *are* going to be as ubiguitous as pocket >calculators. Does anyone have an idea how today's technology will meet the capacity demands of say, 1995? Can the cellular companies just keep adding cells to keep up with the increasing density of cellular calls? >[Moderator's Note: Your mention of the high prices of the early >calculators brought back some nostalgia. I bought a TI-58 and a TI-59 >programmable calculator from Texas Instruments in 1976. They cost >almost five hundred dollars each! If you want to talk vintage calculators, my dad has one of the first Bowmar calculators. In 1973 it cost $189.95 and had four functions. They bought the chip from TI, who later refused to sell them the six function chip, wedging them out of the market. He bought it back in '73 and got a deal on it because he sold them the LED displays. Power supply and all still work today, seventeen years later. Ted Ede -- ted@mbunix.mitre.org -- The MITRE Corporation -- Burlington Road linus!mbunix!ted -- Bedford MA, 01730 -- Mail Stop B091 -- (617) 271-7465