LOL! Yup. We had one too. Springy cord and all. Didn’t get the hand crank model though.
Didn’t know they had them with a hand crank! Now that would have been handy when you ran out of charge!
It is amazing the range and efficiency of the new phones and batteries.
We are living in times of amazing change, a new renaissance, a digital revolution, moving toward the singularity, whatever.
I used to be pretty good at figuring out what would be likely in the future. But now, the technology is changing so fast, that my predictions are often backwards.
You, know, someone may come up with or do X, and I find out that it was done 18 months ago!