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Sput wrote:I imagine those phones were great when you broke down: you could probably use the battery to jump-start your car.

It also tended to do the opposite. Thank goodness it was in the days before stupid rules like not talking on the phone whilst driving along.

If you parked up and made a few calls, the phone took so much out of the car battery that you couldn't start afterwards.

You had to remember to park on a slope, facing downhill. And in the very early days, that was after you'd found the hilltop which was within reach of one of the very few cells.

For the first couple of weeks I had my phone, I had to go onto the top of the local hill, just north of Devizes, in order to get a signal from THE Vodafone cell in Newbury.

They did expand quite quickly, though, it has to be said.

Well it beats finding a Rabbit point. My lord those were a stupid idea.