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When I was first deployed overseas, I made a couple of phone calls using the MARS system. Then we upgraded to AUTODIN. In the mid 80's calling cards were a big improvement. When I was dating my future wife, we wrote lots of letters when I was deployed. I kinda miss the simplicity of those days.I remember actually using pay phones. Calling cards were a big thing on some of my earlier deployments.
I remember the malls having those big round tables with payphones all around them.I remember when Sprint was a long distance landline service. You went to a pay phone and held your little autodialer box up to the receiver and it emitted the touch tones for a 25 digit account number, then when you got the connect signal, you either hit the key on tour box to speed dial the number you were calling, or just entered it by hand on the payphone.
Truckstop used to have walls of payphone lining a hallway. 20 to 30 units. Some even had little sit down cubicles with a desk and chair.
You're bringing back memories Snoop! AUTOVON changed to DSN (Defense Switching Network) in early 1990. Might have been a little better, one less echo maybe.When I was first deployed overseas, I made a couple of phone calls using the MARS system. Then we upgraded to AUTODIN. In the mid 80's calling cards were a big improvement. When I was dating my future wife, we wrote lots of letters when I was deployed. I kinda miss the simplicity of those days.
And yet, now if you leave home without it...Wasn't that long ago that we didn't have smart phones.
I would like to make fun of people who take their phone everywhere, but I can’t. I’m one of them. What a shame.And yet, now if you leave home without it...
In My much younger days, I would drive cross country with no cell phone, they didn’t exist, and a 10 year old Rand McNally atlas. Never had a problem. Hard to imagine doing that now.
H3ll, there are those who won;t go to the bathroom without it...And yet, now if you leave home without it...
I actually grew up (through age 12 or so) in a town that did not even have a pay phone to the best of my recollection. Then we moved to a larger town that did have a phone booth and pay pohone - right outside the town police station. (We had one full time cop who worked days and a part time "night watch" who came on in hte evening and woudl drive around town throughout the night looking for malecreants.I remember actually using pay phones. Calling cards were a big thing on some of my earlier deployments.
Good practice.I actually grew up (through age 12 or so) in a town that did not even have a pay phone to the best of my recollection. Then we moved to a larger town that did have a phone booth and pay pohone - right outside the town police station. (We had one full time cop who worked days and a part time "night watch" who came on in hte evening and woudl drive around town throughout the night looking for malecreants.
In my pre-driving days, we woudl go out on foot or bike and actively try to avoid the night watch. Later when we had cars we'd do the same. Sort of a game. Never glt caught,
That's cool but can you remember what you had for breakfast yesterday?I STILL remember my calling card number.
They got you, didn't they?I remember when I went to Vocational school. There were two phone booths out on the sidewalk. A prank a couple students liked to pull was to put some sort of grease on the ear and mouthpiece of the phone and go into the other booth and wait for someone to walk by. They would call the other booth and hope that whoever would answer. Getting grease on their ear and the side of their mouth. I never really thought that was funny myself.
LMAO no they didn't.They got you, didn't they?
Yes.That's cool but can you remember what you had for breakfast yesterday?