what is this? motorola alphamate - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 Dec 1998

At 10:38 PM 12/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
...
  size keyboard and a 3x40 line lcd display. machine
also has connections for
 rs232, telephone, and din plugs for modem and printer. machine can also run 
...
 I tried to buy a lot of those once.  I thought they
were portable
terminals, but they turn out to be "portable paging entry terminals" used
to send pages to pagers, I assume. 