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Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone

Posted by michael on Friday January 21, 2005 @02:00PM from the whis-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-whis-k-whis-k dept.

hwestiii writes "Yet another indicator of how unrepresentative of the main Slashdot crowd I am (meaning 'old') is that, like vinyl records, 8-track tapes, and Pintos, I can remember when rotary dial phones were items of everyday use, and not some object of retro-cool pseudo-nostalgia. Imagine my delight, then at finding this project in which an old rotary phone is turned into a cell phone. To give credit where its due, I originally found it linked from Hack A Day. I know nothing about home-built electronics projects, but this is enough to make me want to learn. If this catches on, imagine what they'll have to do to those 'turn off your cell phone' messages that play in movie theatres."

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re by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-21 14:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:What the hell kind of phone is THIS? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-21 14:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

When MAC announced their "Mini", it caught my eye. Wanting to buy/build a small computer for my already cramped breakfast bar, I started pricing out similar hardware. The results startled me. Most of the configurations I found were more than the humble US$499 of the "Mini", often much more. To match price I had to configure with a much bigger shuttle-style case.

My question is this. What real computers are currently on the market to compete with this? When my wife asks for the "cute little MAC", what PC can I buy instead?