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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 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).

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. Who still uses pagers anyway? - AOL

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   Who still uses pagers anyway? September 19, 2024 at 12:59 AM. (Reuters) -As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the sound they make ...

6. Al Gross (engineer) - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. From booby-trapped walkie-talkies to exploding pagers - AOL

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   Jonathan Margolis. September 19, 2024 at 3:40 AM. Lebanese soldiers gather outside a phone shop on Wednesday after what was believed to have been an explosion due to a walkie-talkie within (AP ...