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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Plectron - Wikipedia

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   Radio Receivers, Fire helmets, Public Safety. Plectron R-520 receiver manufactured in 1974. A Plectron is a specialized VHF / UHF single-channel, emergency alerting radio receiver, used to activate emergency response personnel, and disaster warning systems. Manufactured from the late 1950s, through the late 1990s, by the now defunct Plectron ...

5. Hezbollah pager explosions in Lebanon and Syria: Everything ...

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   Pagers pre-date mobile phones, having been widely used in the 1980s and 1990s. They are a one-way communications device, allowing people to send a short message via radio signal to the pager ...

6. Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denies supplying exploding ...

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   Gold Apollo, which was founded in 1995 and employs about 30 people in Taiwan, said it held an emergency meeting and hosted government officials at its offices following news that some devices used ...

7. Factbox-What we know about the deadly pager blasts in Lebanon

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   Factbox-What we know about the deadly pager blasts in Lebanon. September 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM. (Reuters) -At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah ...