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2. Motorola Pageboy - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Motorola Minitor - Wikipedia

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   Motorola Minitor. Front view of the Minitor V pager. The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by civil defense organizations such as fire, rescue, and EMS personnel (both volunteer and career) to alert of emergencies. The Minitor, slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes, is carried on a person ...

4. Pager - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. Motorola Pageboy II - Wikipedia

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   Pb II MAA04FNC1568AA 440–470 MHz für Funftonfolge-Rufsysteme (Eur). Pb II radio pager H04BNC Series 406–420 MHz, 450–470 MHz (US and Eur). The variety and reliability made the system popular worldwide. The European system worked strictly in the 85–87, 150–170 and later on in the 450–512 MHz band and was based on the ZVEI codes.

6. Selective calling - Wikipedia

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   Selective calling. In a conventional, analog two-way radio system, a standard radio has noise squelch or carrier squelch, which allows a radio to receive all transmissions. Selective calling is used to address a subset of all two-way radios on a single radio frequency channel. Where more than one user is on the same channel (co-channel users ...

7. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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   One-way pager use hit its peak in 1998, and then began a rapid downward spiral. The arrival of the two-way cell phone quickly rendered the technology — long a mainstay of drug dealers and ...