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- Jan 1, 1970
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We are on $5/mo pay-as you-go plans.
If you're that cheap, you can do even better.
Plenty for us. Virgin does have
smart phones but then AFAIK it pops up to $40/mo or so and I can't see
us using that. I hate it when people fidget around with their handheld
gizmos all the time. Some are literally obsessed. Middle of a nice
dinner ... *BING* ... "Oh, that could be so-and-so sending a text" ...
and out comes the schmart fone. Yuk.
Some people shoot people but that doesn't mean guns aren't useful.
Some people bury the people they've shot, but that doesn't mean
shovels aren't useful.
It's been good to me. I could not possibly have calculated all those
filters with a slide rule. Plus back then HP's were truly unaffordable
for the masses, you had to be on a professor's pay grade for those.
I was a poor married student in '73 when I took the HP plunge. It was
about ten weeks pay for me (three weeks, combined, for the two of us).
I wouldn't have bought an SR-50 at any price[*]. I think professors
were paid a bit more than that, even then. But then again, I'm not so
cheap that I can't afford more than a $5/mo. mobile phone now, either.
;-)
[*] Five people bought SR-50s the summer of my senior year and three
bought HP-35s (amplifier design course).The HP owners all got As and
the TI owners *all* flunked out. How's that for demonstrating the
difference! ;-)
BTW, I used a slipstick and got an A in the class - but it was smokin'
by the end of the final. The HP guys walked out early. I resolved to
join the HP generation right after that final. I got the HP45 in
November, IIRC.