26 Oct
2010
26 Oct
'10
10:14 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?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.
Yep...working retail near Motorola HQ (Schaumburg, IL) in the mid 90s,
I'd see their guys come in with those all the time. And I have seen
the IBM-branded ones in the hands of mainframe techs a bit later on.
Might even have seen some for sale at hamfests once they were retired.