26 Oct
2010
26 Oct
'10
4:40 p.m.
You have any photo's of one of the units? It might've been over a
packet radio network at the time...
Evan Koblentz wrote:
Hi,
Back in the mid to late 80's I used to see all of these IBM tech's
on the city buses and in the streets with these handheld devices,
they were standard IBM off-white with a small keyboard on them, the
size of a footprint of a VHS cassette, but about 1.5 times as thick...
They were using them to send and receive text messages to the
service center and to one another (Pre-cursor to AOL IM'ing I
suppose...)
This was in New York City, I'm assuming it must've been either
across an early text message pager type network or a nascent cellular
setup that IBM established for its service techs...
IBM PCradio?