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As the title says, did anyone ever use pagers before mobiles arrived? I used to have one, hardly used it, but had one anyway lol. What about everyone else?
This is the one I had:
this article is interesting, were any of you orange customers one of the lucky ones to be given a free mobile or other gift to take you away from your pager:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1137923.stm
Miyagi
[ This Message was edited by: Mr Miyagi on 2007-05-31 13:21 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Mr Miyagi on 2007-05-31 13:22 ]
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Posted: 2007-05-31 14:15:36
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take that as no one lol???
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Posted: 2007-06-01 22:09:03
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just give em time
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Posted: 2007-06-01 22:21:58
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I used a pager not before i had a mobile but as well i worked for swatch and they produced a numeric pager watch quite a good idea but battery life was poor
[ This Message was edited by: nicv27 on 2007-06-01 21:46 ]
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Posted: 2007-06-01 22:35:38
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oh god did i .... i hated on call then, now though they get hold of you
and expect a conversation straight away - at least with a pager you had
time to collect your wits at 3 a.m. !!!!
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Posted: 2007-06-02 00:16:26
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lol thats true glorofingal
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Posted: 2007-06-02 00:27:17
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at the time pagers got into this country, we already had mobiles....
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Posted: 2007-06-02 00:30:52
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I used to have a seiko message watch. Fun thing, but the length of the text was very limited and it only had a 10 digit display which meant that 30 percent of the alphabet could not be displayed normally.
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Posted: 2007-06-02 01:35:21
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@miyagi - I was planning to get me one in 1993 . . .but when I saw and heard what the mobile phones can do . . . I changed my mind and just waited another year before I got my first celfone . . . I know . . . eventually knew that pagers will be out of BUSINESS once these mobile-phones established themselves in the communication-arena !
@nic - Never knew that SWATCH had this thing (pager-watch) . . . never reached the SWATCH display-rooms at my end . . .
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Posted: 2007-06-02 01:41:34
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@antichrist
I really don't know what makes you think that but it most certainly isn't true as i have had numerous pagers as they continued to improve as well as a BT credit card so that I could then find a phone box and act on being paged and that was around for quite a while before Mobile phones even launched the analogue system. As i joined the Mobile phone revolution on launch and i can assure you that was a long time after i relied on a pager.
Marc
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[ This Message was edited by: Dogmann on 2007-06-02 01:25 ]
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Posted: 2007-06-02 02:25:16
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