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Welcome to the wonderful, exciting world of Brian R. Gaeke's most high and almighty G-funk era bagg phone. It's a 9318, Series 3 transceiver Motorola bag phone, with an Ameritech handset. This may or may not be because it came from Dave Blundell, my too-3l33t-for-his-shoes friend and purveyor of cellphones and cellphone accessories (on Ameritech's behalf).

Note that the interesting thing about this bag phone is that it is the world famous Ten Dollar Bagg Phone. The fact is that due to tax and gratuity, a Ten Dollar Bag Phone actually costs US$11.60 in our era of money-grubbing welfare-state governments and stuff. Or something.

(The fact is, this bag phone actually cost $25 to start with. But the next thing you know, Dave owed me $7 for movie tix and a Mocha Java Shake from Highland Coffeehouse. And then he owed me another dollar for coffee, and I told him if he bought $7 worth of food, then I would make a web page for the phone. He bought $5.40 worth of food, which I thought was close enough.)

Here you can see a lovely picture of the phone in all its blurry glory:

That stuff that looks like a white crystalline powder on top of the handset is not actually what you think it is, because you need to get your mind out of the gutter(!). It is actually a white plastic bag that contains a hands free mic for the bag phone, because I have this wild idea that I might decide to interface it to a PalmPilot or a BeOS box for a hack this year at MacHack.

Anyway, here is the wonderful, stylish bag that it came in. (Known as a 'tote' to Ameridreck types who are in the know.)

There's something about a cell phone that you have to love, even if it does have a PROM and not an EPROM, so I can't make it (heh heheh) burn, baby, burn, y'know what I mean? Especially a big 3 watt bagg phone. That's bag with two G's.

Well, I'm having a lot of fun with this, but I'd rather go to sleep than keep writing, because I'm shitfaced tired. So I will leave you all to your gleeful frolicking and take my leave of you. Please, stare at my happy bagg phone pictures. And give Dave lots of money.