Computer screen cleaning

[wmrcomputers]

@Gramaisc.... I remember something called "Rabbit" which didn't really catch on. It was a home cordless phone you could take out with you, and you could make calls on your home phone bill with it anywhere you saw the blue "Rabbit" sign displayed. I don't know if that's the one you were referring to - but nevertheless it was something that faded out as quick as "squarials" did (now I've probably started another derail! lol)

 

[Gramaisc]

The one I (think) I remember was a thing which would use your landline if it could contact it, but default to a cell-phone mode at other times, thus you only needed one handset. In the days when mobiles were a bit larger it wasn't unknown for people to take their cordless out with them in error...

I don't remember the Rabbit thing.

 

[dylanf]

Rabbit was a British location-specific (Telepoint) telephone service backed by Hutchison, who later went on to create the Orange GSM mobile network, followed by 3. The Rabbit network was the best-known of four such services introduced in the 1980s, the others being Phonepoint, Mercury Callpoint and Zonephone. Although Hutchison had been issued a licence for Rabbit in 1989, it took until May 1992 before the service was launched. Telepoint services such as Rabbit allowed subscribers to carry specially designed (CT2) home phone handsets with them and make outgoing calls whenever they were within 100 metres of a Rabbit transmitter.

Read More .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_%28telecommunications%29

 

[wmrcomputers]

Rabbit was a British location-specific (Telepoint) telephone service backed by Hutchison, who later went on to create the Orange GSM mobile network, followed by 3. The Rabbit network was the best-known of four such services introduced in the 1980s, the others being Phonepoint, Mercury Callpoint and Zonephone. Although Hutchison had been issued a licence for Rabbit in 1989, it took until May 1992 before the service was launched. Telepoint services such as Rabbit allowed subscribers to carry specially designed (CT2) home phone handsets with them and make outgoing calls whenever they were within 100 metres of a Rabbit transmitter.

Read More .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_%28telecommunications%29

Excellent research. Thanks for jogging my memory!

 

[dylanf]

 

[John Marwood]

they have since been re modelled into wimmins accessories for the boudoire

 

[dylanf]

they have since been re modelled into wimmins accessories for the boudoire

Yep they have, the new model can apparently mow the lawn, has a built in microphone so it can listen to hours of shit, and can drive the kids to school.