Speaking of "IBM Thingy's"...

[Dave McGuire]

   Ohhh yes, I've seen those.  I believe they are POCSAG (pager 
protocol) terminals.  Motorola made a bunch of those, possibly other 
companies as well.  I've seen utility companies use them as well, right 
around that time.

             -Dave

On 10/26/10 5:13 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
> Nope, this wasn't a laptop, it was no bigger then a very thick VHS tape
> with (what I'm remembering...) a 2, maybe 4 line X 80 LCD window on it....
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> Brent Hilpert wrote:
>> On 2010 Oct 26, at 1:40 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
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>> > You have any photo's of one of the units? It might've been over a
>> packet radio network at the time...
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>> google gives slightly different result for "IBM PCradio" and "IBM PC
>> radio".
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>> Photos:
>> http://www.sinasohn.com/cgi-bin/clascomp/bldhtm.pl?computer=pcradio
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>> From http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1991.html:
>> "The company announces the IBM 9075 PCradio, a battery-powered
>> personal computer
>> that lets mobile workers, such as service technicians, get information,
>> order parts and update customer records without leaving their job sites
>> via radio, cellular or telephone communications."
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL