ET phone home

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So you are a little kid lost on a strange planet and want to phone home.

Or you are a Bell Labs troll and Hollywood calls for alien technology with only household objects.

The story of the guy who really made ET's phone-home.

Attached, or at Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/fea_How_ET_Really_Called_Home/

If you missed the movie:
https://ettheextraterrestrial.fandom.com/wiki/E.T.%27s_Communicator

The author of the magazine article, many years later, show-and-tell.

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