26 Oct
2010
26 Oct
'10
8:14 p.m.
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...
Anyone have one of these? Know what they are called? Model#,
photo's, spec's, etc?
I would love to get one if possible.
Thanks,
curt