I used something very similar to this shoulder-bag mobile phone when I interned at a radio news station my junior year in college. —14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985.
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@DennisJerz Ad agency had one!. I liked it because of the range; it worked in places a handheld wouldn’t (~1994).