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Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv

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Subject Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 20:32:15, Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> 
wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
>On 27 Apr 2021 19:56:34 -0000 (UTC) Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>
>>Correction: These days, all SIM cards are nanos. I just received a new
>>SIM card today and had to pop the nano card out of the holder. On the
>>cell phone I'm no longer using, it took a mini.
>>
>>I suppose the original GSM phones took the full-sized card but I never
>>used one.
>
>In 1996 I had a phone with a full-size SIM - a Motorola flip phone. The
>SIM was the size of a credit card. It had a neat feature, way down in
>the menus, to send a 'Short Message'. They weren't called texts yet.

The term remains, though in a form I suspect most people don't 
recognise: the default noise a lot of 'phones make when they receive a 
text is a series of bleeps - which is actually Morse code for SMS, or 
short message system.
>
>I have a hand punch that reduces a mini SIM into a micro. In my iPhone
>I have a nano SIM which has been cut down twice - the second time with
>a knife. Fortunately they can't get any smaller! And the phone has some
>old contacts which I know came from that SIM.

(I did a double-take there, thinking you were referring to the 
electrical contacts on the SIM!)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

[What's your guilty pleasure?] Why should you feel guilty about pleasure? -
Michel Roux Jr in Radio Times 2-8 February 2013

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Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-26 18:18 +0000
  Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Teddy-Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-04-26 14:32 -0400
    Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-04-26 20:09 +0100
      Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Teddy-Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-04-26 16:23 -0400
    Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-26 19:39 +0000
      Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Teddy-Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-04-26 16:23 -0400
        Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-27 00:53 +0000
      Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2021-04-27 07:27 +0100
        Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Dave Royal<dave@dave123royal.com> - 2021-04-27 07:58 +0000
          Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2021-04-27 20:45 +0100
            Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2021-04-27 20:47 +0100
        Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-27 15:33 +0100
        Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-27 16:50 +0000
          Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-27 19:56 +0000
            Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Dave Royal<dave@dave123royal.com> - 2021-04-27 20:32 +0000
              Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Teddy-Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-04-27 17:06 -0400
                Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-27 21:26 +0000
                Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Teddy-Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-04-27 17:58 -0400
                Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-27 22:46 +0000
                Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-28 19:01 +0100
                Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Dave Royal<dave@dave123royal.com> - 2021-04-28 07:01 +0000
              Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-28 18:46 +0100
            Re: Translating contacts list from vcf to csv Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-04-28 08:18 +0100

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