Page Me!!!

slinxy · 8 Mar 2012 at 19:57

I was helping my brother move house, and look what I found... my old pager..

still works, as in it powers on.. needs reactivating thou but it looks like new..

EDIT: yes that is my blackberry bold 9870 in the background and the photo was taken with my iphone 4s..

Robbo · 8 Mar 2012 at 20:04

slinxy said:
EDIT: yes that is my blackberry bold 9870 in the background and the photo was taken with my iphone 4s..

Why did you add this?

Yas786 · 8 Mar 2012 at 20:18

Robbo said:
Why did you add this?

Cos Blackberries are cool innit??

I remember having one of those mercury pagers...twas a long time ago.

Scougar · 8 Mar 2012 at 20:20

I have a pager in my drawer next to the PC :-)

mrgubby · 8 Mar 2012 at 20:44

In a previous life I used to design Pagers for the ERMES network

Antar Bolaeisk · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:05

How did those things work, was it just a text receiving device before the days of integrated texting or something like that?

rotters · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:10

No you had to ring an operator and leave the message, I had one too. Was cool at college, but looking back on it, so uncool.

Locke · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:13

It was cool to leave weird messages on at school, that's about it.

Sent from my iPad 3

p_r_i_m_e · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:14

I had one of the blasted things before they had screens, no mobiles then, had to find a payphone to call work to see why they paged me :-(

Scougar · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:20

50p to send a page i seem to remember!

Felix Da Housecat · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:20

My brother had the same one.

Sent from my pc.

Scougar · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:24

Will dig mine out tomorrow. Realise the one I have actually belongs to a friend that gave it to me on permanent loan lol (quite literally he phrased it that way)

mrk · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:31

Pager? *pulls out TELEGRAM DEVICE*

Cosimo · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:40

Pagers meant only one thing, being on call.

DirtyRaver · 9 Mar 2012 at 01:43

I had a Swatch 'the beep' which had a pager built into it, thought I was the coolest cat around when it beeped. All it did was flash a phone number across the screen meaning I had to find a phone to call whoever it was paging me.

upon reflection it was pretty crap, and expensive too.

Myshra · 9 Mar 2012 at 08:45

No joke, we still use these at Orange for the on-call staff. The noise it makes is dreadful, they bring it into the office for some reason and all I can hear during incidents is BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP at a volume that shouldn't come out from such a small device.

Hades · 9 Mar 2012 at 09:42

p_r_i_m_e said:
I had one of the blasted things before they had screens, no mobiles then, had to find a payphone to call work to see why they paged me

Yup same here back in the 90's. I remember having to find somewhere to park the car, then go walking to find a callbox.

It's a little different to life today where work gets cheesed off if you don't answer your phone within a few rings and not replying to a work email on Christmas day is almost a hanging offence.