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Welcome once again to Commando on Demand Insider, your fast-paced weekly update straight from Kim's desk to your ears.

I'm Mike James, and in just a bit, Kim talks with Steve Balmer, former CEO of Microsoft

and current chairman of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team. And Steve has a new focus

he's going to be telling you about. You're not going to believe some of the ridiculous fake news

about the coronavirus that's spreading online. And Andy Kaplan is the co-founder and CEO of

EGB, one of the world's leaders in visual intelligence technology. Well, that's all fine and dandy,

but listen to this. We're going to find out how his company is using that technology to help

fight wildfires in Australia.

And how a veteran newspaper and television journalists almost fell for a scan.

Of course, every week we find a great trivia question and ask that you give us your best guest without using Google.

Today's trivia is about cell phones.

We take our cell phones for granted now.

But let's go back to the beginning.

The first call was made on a cellular network in 1973.

Even still, it took another 10 years for a mass-produced cell phone to hit the market.

That was in 1983.

That phone, the Motorola Dinah Tack 8,000X.

I know. Motorola Dinatack 8,000 X. I know.

Motorola dinatack 8,000 X, and even though it wouldn't come close to fitting in your pocket,

it was still the first of its kind.

So today's trivia question is how much do you think that phone back in the day, 1983, how much did it cost?

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