Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Not A Big Truck

As near as I can figure out, it really is a series of tubes!(Moto HT, Iky all-standards monitor, fiber-optic breakout and my Kindle with a stored web-page. No free wi-fi for you! But I was waiting on techs at the other end and couldn't resist the snapshot.)

3 comments:

NYEMT said...

Good grief. Are you sure that Motorola doesn't belong over at the other blog? It's damn near as old as me.

Roberta X said...

Heck, that's one of what we still think of as the new HTs. The ones they replaced, you would not have believed.

NYEMT said...

I worked in a radio shop as a "side job" that somehow turned into a 50-hour-per-week gig that left me a sleep-deprived zombie for about six years. Those Radius portables (and a lot of the Moto mobiles from the mid-'90s) were programmed with DOS-based software, and we had to resurrect some truly archaic computers to get the radios and the 'pooters to talk nicely to each other. Anything faster than a 386 was too fast for the radios. Also, new laptops (surprise) don't have serial ports. Guess what all the Motorola products needed to connect to the programmers? ;)

WV: "mazes"...as in, "It 'mazes me what's still in use out there that we thought would be doorstops by now.."