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Schuylkill notes. Schuylkill notes are cryptic messages printed on little pieces of paper appearing in many locations in Pennsylvania. Authorship of the notes is unknown. They are found inside food packaging, hanging from trees along hiking trails and state parks. They have been discovered primarily in northeastern and central Pennsylvania.
Legislative. ← PA 75. I-76. → PA 76. The Schuylkill Expressway / ˈskuːkəl /, [2] locally known as " the Schuylkill ", is a freeway through southern Montgomery County and Philadelphia. It is the easternmost segment of Interstate 76 (I-76) in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It extends from the Valley Forge interchange of the Pennsylvania ...
Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]
Schuylkill River Passenger Rail is a proposed passenger train service along the Schuylkill River between Philadelphia and Reading, Pennsylvania, with intermediate stops in Norristown, King of Prussia, Phoenixville, and Pottstown . Passenger trains previously ran on this route from 1838 to 1981, when SEPTA discontinued service past Norristown on ...
Page (servant) Lord Patten, robed as Chancellor of Oxford University, assisted by a page. A page or page boy is traditionally a young male attendant or servant, but may also have been a messenger in the service of a nobleman . During wedding ceremonies, a page boy is often used as a symbolic attendant to carry the rings.
Motorola PageWriter 2000. The Motorola PageWriter 2000 was a two-way pager introduced in 1998. [1] Featuring the 68000 based Motorola DragonBall processor, 1 MB of internal storage, a four color grayscale screen, IrDA transmitter/receiver, and a full QWERTY keyboard the PageWriter represented a combination of both PDA and pager in one package.
At that time pagers had a limited range and were used mostly in on-site situations for example to call medical personnel in a hospital. By 1990, wide-area paging had been invented and over 22 million pagers were in use. Their number exploded and by 1994, there were over 61 million pagers in use. Motorola’s Pageboy II Pageboy II
Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol. 1985 MetroMedia IXO Device. Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) is an industry-standard protocol for sending short messages via a land-line modem to a provider of pager and/or SMS services, for onward transmission to pagers and mobile phones. [1] [2]