I got my first car phone ~late '83: it was $2Gs at the local NJ car phone Joint,
(a predecessor to Verizon), it cost ~$75 a month hanging on my dash and, about
.30 cts a fookin min. Fortunately the "company" was paying for it.
I got my first portable "cell phone" about 1987, and it looked a lot like that pic by DocKewl.
It worked like tin cans & string and the freakin battery lasted about 15 mins. I had to nearly
empty out my briefcase to get it in there.
Here's a pic of a phone similar to the one I had when growing up;
we had 4 other houses on the "party line", so one had to wait for
a turn.
Ya'll spoiled rotten, these days...
