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The first telephone pager system was patented in 1949 by Alfred J. Gross. [7] Intended for the use of physicians, there was initial resistance to the idea of being permanently on-call, according to Gross. [8] One of the first practical paging services was launched in 1950 for physicians in the New York City area. [9]
Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross (/ ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone.
John Francis Mitchell (January 1, 1928 – June 9, 2009) was an American electronics engineer and president and chief operating officer of Motorola. [3] [4] Mitchell led the pioneering development and implementation of Motorola's mobile phone technology producing the first portable transistorized pager and cell phone.
Page (computer memory) A page, memory page, or virtual page is a fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory, described by a single entry in a page table. It is the smallest unit of data for memory management in an operating system that uses virtual memory. Similarly, a page frame is the smallest fixed-length contiguous block of physical ...
With pagers now appearing to be as vulnerable to Israeli malware as cellphones, Nasrallah must come up with a new method of transmitting orders to his forces, which will take some time.
6 Questions About the Deadly Pager Attacks in Lebanon, Answered. Yasmeen Serhan. September 18, 2024 at 2:10 PM. People arrive at a Red Cross building in Beirut to donate blood on Sept. 17, 2024 ...
Motorola Pageboy was the second pager produced by Motorola with individual-unit addressing, [clarification needed] after the lesser-known "Handie-Talkie Radio Pocket Pager" from 1955. [citation needed] The first pager-like system was used in 1921 by the Detroit Police Department. However, the first pager that we would today recognize as such ...
PDP-10 systems on the ARPANET highlighted in yellow. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family [1] manufactured beginning in 1966 [2] and discontinued in 1983.