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TechFan #265 - Old Tech

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My Mac Productions MyMac.com Tim Robertson

Gadgets, Technology

3.830 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Owen Rubin joins Tim Robertson this week to discuss old technology, his review of the Tenda Powerline Adapter, technology and bootlegging in Assia, scam emails, and feedback from last weeks show. Plus, iCade arcade questions! Sponsored by Macsales.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to another great podcast in the Stoplight Network.

0:05.2

So I was looking through, cleaning up my office yesterday, and I found my old Motorola flip phone.

0:12.6

Does it still work?

0:14.0

Oh, the battery's dead, but I plugged it in and it powered up, and I tried making the call on it.

0:18.4

I don't have service on it anymore, but it still worked.

0:20.9

The display is kind of screwed up. Yeah, but you can still the call on it. I don't have service on it anymore, but it still worked. The display is kind of screwed up.

0:23.0

Yeah, but you can still dial 911

0:24.4

with it.

0:25.6

Yeah.

0:26.2

So just call them and say, hey, is this working?

0:28.8

They don't mind.

0:29.4

No, but so here's what I did.

0:30.3

So it shows up and it says, what now, which is what I had on this.

0:34.2

The buttons are kind of funky. You know, you can see it's not working completely.

0:42.7

It's funny

0:43.3

when you find old technology

0:44.5

and it's,

0:45.5

you plug it in,

0:46.2

it still works.

0:47.0

Every iPhone I've ever owned still works.

0:48.7

You can hear this.

0:52.2

You can hear that?

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