Ohhh yes, I've seen those. I believe they are POCSAG (pager
protocol) terminals. Motorola made a bunch of those, possibly other
companies as well. I've seen utility companies use them as well, right
around that time.
-Dave
On 10/26/10 5:13 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Nope, this wasn't a laptop, it was no bigger then
a very thick VHS tape
with (what I'm remembering...) a 2, maybe 4 line X 80 LCD window on it....
Brent Hilpert wrote:
> On 2010 Oct 26, at 1:40 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
>
> > You have any photo's of one of the units? It might've been over a
> packet radio network at the time...
>
> google gives slightly different result for "IBM PCradio" and "IBM PC
> radio".
>
> Photos:
>
http://www.sinasohn.com/cgi-bin/clascomp/bldhtm.pl?computer=pcradio
>
> From
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1991.html:
> "The company announces the IBM 9075 PCradio, a battery-powered
> personal computer
> that lets mobile workers, such as service technicians, get information,
> order parts and update customer records without leaving their job sites
> via radio, cellular or telephone communications."
>
>
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL