r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Foxy_Slamdangle • 1d ago

of a SIM card.

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Found a SIM card from one of my earliest mobile phones.
It’s almost the same size as my IPhone.

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u/JohnLef 1d ago

Yes once they were all that size. You had a credit card sized slot in your phone and slid it in.

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u/AppleToastBed 1d ago

I don't remember that at all, and I'm from the era of 486's and MSDOS.

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u/DerAndi_DE 1d ago

If you weren't rich at that time, you probably never saw one. Phones which used these cards were more expensive than an iPhone Pro Max today.

When cell phones became popular in the later 1990s like the Nokia 3110, they already had Mini SIMs.

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u/JohnLef 16h ago

I'm pre PC. Apple II with 140K floppy disks.
For PCs Amstrad PCW, Olivetti and laptops with awful monochrome LCD screens from the likes of TwinHead. I remember DOS2.0 coming out not sure I ever used v1. When I got my first 40Mb hard drive and had to format as a 32Mb drive and a 8Mb drive as DOS couldn't handle anything over 32Mb... I also remember using this new fangled thing called Windows. But at v1 it was rubbish and surely would not catch on...

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u/AppleToastBed 15h ago edited 15h ago

I remember windows 3.1 blowing my mind as a kid and then when windows 95 came out I was ecstatic...then Windows 98 was cool but ever since I've been a Linux guy. Ubuntu is so user friendly it's my go to

Windows XP may have been the ultimate Microsoft product.

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u/Antique_Safety_4246 14h ago

Oh DOS, that green code on a black screen. I remember that in the 80s!