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As there was an eclipse today, I dug out an old copy of The Times from 12th August 1999, the day after the last (now last but 1 UK major eclipse) that was on 11th August 1999. I was intrigued by the adverts inside the newspaper, especially for laptops and mobile phones. At the time, you could get a mobile for £11.99 per month, and Orange were offering a bonus of 200 extra minutes of talk time, on top of 200 making it 400 minutes a month, for £58.75 a month. Computers cost around £1000 or more for what is now considered tiny memory space, and were pretty clunky things.
I've attached a slide showing this.
As there was an eclipse today, I dug out an old copy of The Times from 12th August 1999, the day after the last (now last but 1 UK major eclipse) that was on 11th August 1999. I was intrigued by the adverts inside the newspaper, especially for laptops and mobile phones. At the time, you could get a mobile for £11.99 per month, and Orange were offering a bonus of 200 extra minutes of talk time, on top of 200 making it 400 minutes a month, for £58.75 a month. Computers cost around £1000 or more for what is now considered tiny memory space, and were pretty clunky things.
I've attached a slide showing this.