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| Authored by: lnuss on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 06:57 PM EDT |
Instamatic was a Kodak trademark, and used 126 type (if I recall correctly) film
you had to get developed. Kodak did, for a short while, have a camera similar to
the Polaroid, which developed in your hand, but Kodak's patents forced them to
take it off the market, even though it was a better product than any of the
Polaroids (I still have one of the Kodaks and I still have one of the Polaroid
SX-70 type (with some neat accessories, such as special filters, closeup lens,
etc.), under the Minolta brand name, neither of which I can find film for, but
they're both neat stuff).
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- Land - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 03:08 PM EDT
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| Authored by: artp on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 10:54 PM EDT |
... or else my employers missed an opportunity to hang Yet
Another Electronic Device on my belt to track me down with.
How many pagers ended up getting "accidentally" dropped in
lakes or toilets or ...
The pagers I used were all numeric. You got a number to
call. It was one way only. The pager goes off, you read it,
then ignore it as you seek out a phone you can use. I hope
you aren't on the road, you are on call this week!
Alphanumeric pagers were much more expensive, so I never got
to use one.
At one company, we had a voice-box on our mainframe. If
something happened that needed attention, it would call up
the on-call person at their home phone and give them a
prerecorded message.
One morning, we came in and found that the backup had failed
- nobody had swapped out the tape. We asked the on-call guy
what had happened - hadn't he gotten a page? He had gotten a
phone call at 3 AM, but he said it was "some drunk lady" so
he hung up. Voice generation left a lot to be desired back
then. And apparently, so did this guy's social life if he
knew what a drunk lady sounded like at 3 AM.
Forever after, we called the voice-box "the drunk lady". It
fit far too well to let it be forgotten.
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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- It is a pager... - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 23 2013 @ 04:26 AM EDT
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