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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1777724" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>I was not at all surprised when cell phones were developed. It was just a short jump from the old MARS system military folks (including myself) used to call back home from all over the world. All cell phones did was cut out the middle man (Amateur or Ham radio operator) that patched the calls in and relayed them from one operator to another until they reached whom ever you were calling halfway around the world. The tech for automatically transferring calls had existed in the military for well over a decade but wasn't available to the public yet nor were the frequencies needed for the public to use. The big breakthrough for cell phones to come about came when Texas Instruments developed the integrated circuit in 1958 and the single chip microprocessor in 1970. After that, it was off to the races for mobile phones and the FCC released more frequencies that had previously been reserved for Govt and military use.</p><p>'over'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1777724, member: 18945"] I was not at all surprised when cell phones were developed. It was just a short jump from the old MARS system military folks (including myself) used to call back home from all over the world. All cell phones did was cut out the middle man (Amateur or Ham radio operator) that patched the calls in and relayed them from one operator to another until they reached whom ever you were calling halfway around the world. The tech for automatically transferring calls had existed in the military for well over a decade but wasn't available to the public yet nor were the frequencies needed for the public to use. The big breakthrough for cell phones to come about came when Texas Instruments developed the integrated circuit in 1958 and the single chip microprocessor in 1970. After that, it was off to the races for mobile phones and the FCC released more frequencies that had previously been reserved for Govt and military use. 'over' [/QUOTE]
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