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  2. PocketBell - Wikipedia

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    Philippine Wireless Inc. introduced PocketBell in the 1970s, becoming the first company to make pagers commercially available in the Philippines. From the 1970s until the mid-1980s, it virtually maintained a monopoly in the pager industry in the country. After the 1986 People Power Revolution which deposed President Ferdinand Marcos and ...

  3. List of 30 Rock characters - Wikipedia

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    He was the last remaining beeper salesman in New York City, and was known as the "Beeper King" (after the original Beeper King committed suicide). He concocts a number of money-making schemes, including a make-your-own coffee station, copying DVD movies onto LaserDisc , and devising a Balloon Boy -like stunt after being assigned to a program ...

  4. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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    Memory paging. In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage [a] for use in main memory. [citation needed] In this scheme, the operating system retrieves data from secondary storage in same-size blocks called ...

  5. Back-up beeper - Wikipedia

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    Back-up beeper. A back up beeper warns of a garbage truck backing up as it works its way around a cul-de-sac. A white-noise back-up beeper provides a less disruptive alert than the original pure-tone alert. A back-up beeper, also known as back-up alarm or vehicle motion alarm, is a device intended to warn passers-by of a vehicle moving in reverse.

  6. Radio-paging code No. 1 - Wikipedia

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    An NEC pager, using POCSAG coding branded for the Skyper network. Radio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the P ost O ffice C ode S tandardisation A dvisory G roup, the name of the group that developed the code under the ...

  7. Seminar (album) - Wikipedia

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    Seminar is the second album by American rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot.It was released on October 17, 1989, via Nastymix and was produced entirely by Sir Mix-a-Lot. The album peaked at number 67 on the Billboard 200, number 25 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and was certified gold by Recording Industry Association of America.

  8. Motorola Pageboy II - Wikipedia

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    Pageboy II. Motorola’s Pageboy II was launched in 1975 for the United States and 1976 for Europe in various types. Pb II 5-tone only 68–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US and Eur). Pb II tone only for 5-tone 80,6–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US). Pb II tone & voice radio for 2-tone signalling systems 68–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US).

  9. Beeper Mini: Apple locked in fight with app that brings ... - AOL

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    Battle has come to be about whether Apple should be required to let people use its service on other company’s devices Beeper Mini: Apple locked in fight with app that brings iMessages to Android ...