Motorola PageBoy I (1964-1975) Models on Display:Motorola PageBoy I Released years before Steve Jobs

Released years before Steve Jobs returned to Apple

🥇First Widely Popular Personal Digital Assistant

packing a custom 16-bit digital-to-analog converter and three independent microprocessors

were the ultimate "must-have" toy of the 1980s

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Motorola PageBoy I (1964-1975) Models on Display:Motorola PageBoy I Released years before Steve JobsMotorola PageBoy I First Commercially Successful Tone Only Pager The Motorola PageBoy I, introduced in 1964, was the first transistorized consumer pager that we would recognize by modern standards, effectively birthing the personal paging industry. Frequently clipped to the belts of doctors and firefighters, this "tone only" receiver replaced loud, disruptive public address systems by letting a base station selectively alert an individual wearer with