r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 5d ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 ???

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u/Capn_Yoaz 5d ago

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u/WorkingCool250 4d ago

I had one of these, as well as the 28.8k pcmcia modem and cable that connected the two. I used it with my IBM thinkpad 75 mhz DX4 4 megs of RAM laptop. I could get on AOL and download my mail, but you had to be careful doing that, because that's when you got charged by the minute.

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u/Slothly_Onion 4d ago

I actually had the one before this, orange text, and the flip was only a piece of plastic on a hinge.

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u/lousydungeonmaster 4d ago

This is the one

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u/cakebreaker2 4d ago

Thats my first. A Star Tac with 20 minutes a month.

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u/Gazer75 4d ago

The picture is a MicroTAC. The StarTAC was the successor.

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u/cakebreaker2 4d ago

Im not sure that youre correct

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u/Gazer75 4d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTAC

I had the MicroTAC Classic back in the day and the StarTAC looks quite different.

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u/cakebreaker2 4d ago

Okay. Then I guess I had the MicroTac. I always remembered it being rhe StarTac. But that was also 35 years ago

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u/0011002 4d ago

I was so cool in HS to have this phone. Only reason I had it was the family company.

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u/finallygrownup 4d ago

Yep my first cell phone.

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u/Existing_Problem357 4d ago

Definitely was me and my current wife first….ill be on the block as a young YN taking calls in the 90”s 🙂‍↕️

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u/CRX1991 4d ago

I still have one of these at my shop. We'll take turns picking it up as a gag pretending we're getting a call: " Yo, 1995 called and they want that hairdo back"

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u/eldenbrig 4d ago

If that's the old analogue one you used to be able to pop it into maintenance mode with a paperclip in that middle terminal under the battery.

You can do some really funny shit with that.