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Ya'll remember having a pager?

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I did. My first one was a Motorola Bravo Express I got in 1996. I forgot the monthly cost. Maybe something like $10/month perhaps. Local numbers were free. This is when calling from Santa Rosa to Vallejo was "long distance" because you had to dial a "1" before the 7-digit telephone number. :laughing

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Got my first pager in '92 when I started my business. If I was on the road and I got a text, I would have to find a payphone to call back.
 
Ya'll must be over 40! :twofinger :laughing

I remember the time before there were pagers or cell phones. :afm199
 
I had a pager for personal use for a few months. traded it up for a mobile phone once the basic nokia handsets got real cheap, and I got a lot more use out of it.

One of my favorite memories was a good friend of mine at a party. He worked in IT and carried a pager for work. He was up most of the night the night before getting pages that didn't pertain to him. He got one at the party and he proceeded to put the pager on the floor, and smashed it with the heaviest thing he could find, which was one of those 6 D-Cell maglites.

It was a gorgeous moment.

Oh, and that page didn't pertain to him either.
 
yodaisgod said:
I did. My first one was a Motorola Bravo Express I got in 1996. I forgot the monthly cost. Maybe something like $10/month perhaps. Local numbers were free. This is when calling from Santa Rosa to Vallejo was "long distance" because you had to dial a "1" before the 7-digit telephone number. :laughing

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I had the same one. I remember having a sort of Rosetta stone for pager code haha. My parents had a 10 minute rule, I had to call them back within 10 minutes of getting their page. Small price to pay for having my license at 16 and most of my friends living at least 15 miles away where I went to school.
 
I remember being cool with a non active beeper/pager in middle school. I would press the button to make it chime just so that I looked important to everyone else. :laughing

...Those were the days...:facepalm
 
I had to carry a pager for a delivery truck job I had several years ago. Pager would go off and then I had to find a pay phone at odd hours in bad weather just find out the dispatcher had called the wrong pager. Pagers were such shitty technology.
 
yodaisgod said:
I did. My first one was a Motorola Bravo Express I got in 1996. I forgot the monthly cost. Maybe something like $10/month perhaps. Local numbers were free. This is when calling from Santa Rosa to Vallejo was "long distance" because you had to dial a "1" before the 7-digit telephone number. :laughing

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I had that one. Or one similar to that. It could do alphanumeric, though I only ever got numbers. Had the one before it with the display on the top.

All it ever got used for was my boss to page me to call him and tell me where my next security guard gig was at.
 
CABilly said:
I had the same one. I remember having a sort of Rosetta stone for pager code haha. My parents had a 10 minute rule, I had to call them back within 10 minutes of getting their page. Small price to pay for having my license at 16 and most of my friends living at least 15 miles away where I went to school.
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Me and a couple of my friends would use some police codes. I'll get paged with 10-20 and I'd paged back with my home number indicating I was at home. Or, if I was at another friends house, I'd page back with that number. Then I would see a 10-76 stating that person is en route to where I'm at. :laughing Glorious times.
 
My EDC back in circa 2000... I still have both in a junk drawer...

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TheRobSJ said:
All it ever got used for was my boss to page me to call him and tell me where my next security guard gig was at.
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My first job out of the Army was a security supervisor for Burns, on grave shift. It was me and one other supervisor, and our territory was from San Francisco to Monterey. Anything happens on any of our sites it was up to us to fix it. So I'd be driving in the middle of nowhere Watsonville, get a page at 2AM, and end up driving past countless of farms to try and find a payphone. Good times.
 
Never had a pager. Would have gotten by without a cell phone too until I got a job that wasn't so close to home. And that was only so that my family could reach me.

I was always proud to have a job where nobody ever had a reason to contact me when I wasn't at work.
 
I had a pager in high school because I was a search and rescue volunteer for Marin County. People would joke about me being a drug dealer and try and steel it as a prank.

It was fun to leave school, because school made us volunteer ~15 hours a year. I ended up getting recognized by my school and by the county board of supervisors for my service.

When I moved to Santa Clara County after college, I tried to join as a trainee, but they rejected me. So many hoops to jump through.
 
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I had a pager in high school (late 90s) because it seemed like the internet was always in use, tying up the phone line. I also had one from 2003 to 2009 for PG&E that would send me outage texts.
 
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