Overall, though, I wish that the law required companies to provide sans-hardware contract-free service at comparable rates, and let the market fight it out. Because at that point, the competition would be almost all about service, and the companies that would survive would be the ones with the best service.
They have these, they are the prepaid service ones like Virgin mobile or AT&T go-mobile. You buy the phone yourself and prepay for minutes on a card. There are some strange things like 'You must buy XX minutes every XX months' and so on, but you get the advantage of:
1. No contract of any kind
2. No credit check
3. Phone number portability (at least to Virgin Mobile)
4. And (most importantly for me, being a tin-foil-hat-wearer) you don't have your SSN tied to the phone or any personal information at all.
The drawback is that minutes cost a bit more but since you don't pay a base 20/30$+ a month it all kind of works out.
Early 81's had the gooved hood and fuel flap. Some 81's have a grooved hood and no flap. All 83's had no flap and no grooves.
If you did in fact have an 83, the hood was from an 81.
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Not real popular with EEs, unless you are in power systems. I've never heard of a software engineer with a PE stamp, but the system is in place.
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They have these, they are the prepaid service ones like Virgin mobile or AT&T go-mobile. You buy the phone yourself and prepay for minutes on a card. There are some strange things like 'You must buy XX minutes every XX months' and so on, but you get the advantage of:
1. No contract of any kind
2. No credit check
3. Phone number portability (at least to Virgin Mobile)
4. And (most importantly for me, being a tin-foil-hat-wearer) you don't have your SSN tied to the phone or any personal information at all.
The drawback is that minutes cost a bit more but since you don't pay a base 20/30$+ a month it all kind of works out.
Early 81's had the gooved hood and fuel flap. Some 81's have a grooved hood and no flap. All 83's had no flap and no grooves. If you did in fact have an 83, the hood was from an 81.