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This NEC Pager Could Wake The Dead With Its Beeper
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2022
- Pagers, beepers, pocket bells, they went by a lot of names but they all did the same thing... let you know you had somewhere to be or someone to call. This is an NEC one way pager with no other information, no model number, just serial number and the old phone number on the back. It runs on a single double AA battery, beeps and vibrates, and has alarm and timer features. All I know is this pager beeps so loud you'd think it was a smoke detector.
#Pager #Beeper #TechThrowback
This video is ROUGH, but it was the first video I actually shot for this channel. There won't be any others that look this bad, I can promise you that! Also working on the overhead camera shot. 🍻
Embrace the jank! Make some MKBHD style b-roll, but on a budget! Zip tie camera to a muffler or something 🤣
You make up for it with the Geo Tracker T shirt! EPIC!
No worries, JR. FYI- I still carry a Motorola Bravo pager every day. I did a video about it on my channel. NEC = National Electronics Co. The beauty about pagers is they receive only, no transmit (like cellphones). Absolutely UNTRACEABLE!!
I have horrible anxiety from the sound of my work phone back in the late 2000's, anytime I got paged it was always awful. For years after I left that job I would randomly hear the sound and it was like PTSD Dog
My dad had one of these until... far, far too late into the 2000s. Kinda sad all the analog GSM networks are dead now and cool old stuff like this is essentially useless now.
Pagers are still a thing today. Mostly I see are hospitals that use them. Using SDR and a piece of software you can decode the messages, And sadly a lot of personal info gets pushed through which anyone can see.
@@HPad2 Yes, and that's because due to the nature of the bands used for pagers they will beep in places of that hospital where a cell phone can't even make/receive a simple call and/or SMS text.
Time waits for no man... my old iPhone 6s still runs the current OS, but the cellular bands that are widely supported now are different than they were back then, so it had issues in some areas which supposedly had good reception. No issues with the new 13 Pro.
@@CommodoreFan64 most hospitals had a deal back then with the pager companies, so there was usually a transmitter on site, because they are super easy and cheap to deploy.
My two buddies got those back when they were still fairly new. I was going with them to watch a movie and all of a sudden my buddy Ken is wobbling down the sidewalk like he was having a stroke and kinda going WAAAA!!!. turns out he had set it to vibrate to be nice in the movie it went off in his pocket and rocked his world... 🤣
Alright JR,
I give up, I watch an episode of your passion project.
When I ran a lab courier route for a local hospital chain back in 2018, they gave me a pager and a flip phone.. the older guy who ran it before me had the route for over 20 years (back when pagers were still a big thing, and you had to pay for minutes on a cell phone lol) and they used to page him when there was a pickup.. It was the first one I'd seen in over 10 years.. it was a pretty cool throwback lol. Such a simpler time.. Great video
They are still used in healthcare facilities. Some are more reliable than cell phones and are straight to the point.
Oh damn, I have to leave yet ANTOTHER comment. Just like I left another comment my father had two beepers and a early cell phone, and a car phone for working for a regional CBS station. He had the whole two beepers and a cell phone and even a car phone in a 1st gen Ford Explorer with a car phone and a 1st gen Ford Explorer as a Camera car. The 90s were nuts
I was provided one by my company in the mid 1990s. Unfortunately my manager always wanted me paged with the decided emergency code (the office number followed with 911). After about four such pages one afternoon and no emergency, I had just gotten home and was about to microwave a snack when another such page came in. Frustrated the pager went in for 5 seconds. In 2 it lit up, beeped once. It kept time and past history but never got another page. It took three weeks for them to ask if it was working.
We used to listen to the old analogue phone services on a police scanner... Some very juicy stuff.
Very nice video JR. I saw Adafruit doing some of this stuff with old Apple gear the other day on IG. Now you come in with this! Keep ‘em coming!
Boy, does this take me back. I had a Motorola that operated in the northern third of my state. I was taking flying lessons at the time and if someone called me while airborne, it would go off like five times in rapid succession.
Never really took off in the UK. Except in Hospitals where they had their own pager networks with dedicated RF units throughout the hospitals.
Fire department pagers are really more of a one way radio than the AN pagers. However, they still use AN pagers in hospitals. They only work inside the hospital usually, though.
A pager was life in high school in the late eighties, early nineties. I remember my girlfriend made me a code number cheat sheet so I could figure out what she wanted
Time flies, feels like yesterday you saw movies where people were paged
You were clearly important like a broker or doctor if had one of these back in the day. Then pretty quickly, you were a drug dealer if you had one of these. Then all of a sudden, they were gone. BTW, I like how JR says button "buuuh nnn".
Cool, you reviewed my old pager. I used this pager in the late 90's before I upgraded to 4 line 2 way pager
VHS... there's an idea for a future episode! We owned several of the high end 1990s Sony VHS decks with the jog shuttles on the front of the VCR as well as the remote. By the late 1990s, they were all commotized, and Sony made lower end decks which were around $100 and comparable to the (also very good) inexpensive Panasonic/Quasar decks.
I still have a Sony SLV 676 with the jog shuttle and electronic editing that would show what was on the tape when paused in record mode. You could make frame accurate edits with it. Buddy stepped up and bought the SLV 990 SVHS deck, what a great beast. They were trying prove they could make the best VHS decks ever made and charged accordingly. Like you said they started dumbing them down and removing the advanced features so they could sell cheap decks like everyone else. I later got a JVC SVHS deck with a time base corrector and similar editing features to the Sony. It made slow speed tapes look way better than any deck I owned.
Pagers were a 1980s drug dealer's sidekick. Doctors in large hospitals used to wear them too before there were cell phones.
Nice, the geo tracker shirt was a nice touch.
Throwback shirts on this channel! 💯
Me, and my brother both had Motorola Bravo single line pagers with the screen at the top in high school in the mid - late 90's given to us by our parents as cell phones were too expensive, and if one of them sent us a text with an 01 after our home number, or whatever number they were calling from, that ment call them ASAP, even if it was collect, and if it was 02 after the number that meant get your ass home ASAP, or you were in trouble LOL!
Then when my brother got one of his first real Jobs out of high school in early 2000 working for Air Gas(the dry ice plant) as their on call 24/7 maintenance guy, they eventually gave him a Motorola Talkabout T900 with the flip up screen, and I honestly thought it was cool AF!!
I worked in the pager biz back then, This definitely had a model name but I can't for the life of me remember what this one was. The other really popular NEC pager, with the top display and two front buttons was called the "Executive"
Pagers kinda exist in a weird tech space because most of their popular existence was pre-internet so finding tech info or promotional material online about them is difficult.
I had a pager back in the early 90s so a client could page me for issues with the program I wrote for them
I'd call and get it sorted. Didn't detract from the programming I was doing for my current employer.
However, my employer at the time, got wind of this and told me to keep it in my brief case.
No problem, I could still detect the vibration and would call at lunch time.
I've since become self-employed - no issues, no pager, just phone and text. :)
My first pager from work was from Motorola. It had a red light and it beeped. That’s it. If it went off you called the office. Later on we got the numeric display on the top edge,and finally the Motorola Talkabout so you could receive and reply to text messages. Eventually they gave us cellphones and told us to use text messages instead of pagers. Finally they gave us laptops with a cellular modem so we could fix the problem without coming in to the office.
Hey, JR, i hope you know that people (i can speak for myself, i guess) appreciate this type of content. I've watched watchjrgo for probly 2 years or so...and i love how different you have made this channel! It's like you're playing two different characters. I hope to see more people subscribe, and i hope to see you keep posting videos on here ::)
I'm thinking you need an 80's/90's piece of wall art behind you. Maybe something synthwave or a Nagel print. Or one of those motivational business ones. But get the modern "de-motivational" ones that look like the old ones, but are more real life. lol
I had a transparent brown Motorola pager when I was around 15. It never had service because I wasn't old enough to get a contract - but it looked fly on my Cross-Colour jeans 😂🤣
BeeperPlepsy - if I hear Motorola's "Triangle" I go into shock - it was the only pager tone that would wake me up at 3am if I was on-call as a SysAdmin back in the 90's.
I've looked in to getting a pager and they are expensive per month ($15/mo) compared to an "add-on" SIM for a smart watch or tablet - $10/mo (or a phone without voice)...
I used to have a Motorola pager back in the 80’s 89-90 before mobile phones
Hilarious! I worked at PageNet from the mid 90's to mid 2000's. Those NEC pagers were "last resort" given out. Because of course they stunk compared to the Motorola 1 way pagers.
We always liked them in my pager reseller location because they were generally more RF stable than the Motorolas, and Motorola had switched to laser trim caps which meant you had to bust the soldering iron out and replace parts to re-rune them for drift.
Were you still at PageNet for the Voice now disaster?
@@PeterBellefleur Yes, I was there when VoiceNow came out, had one of them myself and all I can say is "Great idea...bad execution!" and it only cost $1 billion USD. Coverage footprint was way too small and it didn't have any other functions. Still, was a great place to work.
doctors, especially surgeons, still use them quite a bit
For sure but most pager networks are gone, it's not like the old days 🍻
Back in the early nineties everybody had a pager. I had a Motorola one that used a single line alpha-numeric display and had a 3 position slider switch for noisy or quiet mode. Pushing the switch in would illuminate the display for about 30 seconds. Usually when you called someone's pager you would send the number you want them to call you back at...but you could enter any number that fit as well.
When I was 14 I had a pager. Then I got a Motorola 2 way. Then a Star Tek flip phone. I’m 41 today with a iPhone 14 pro max. Time sure does fly
I love that shirt!!!
I remember my first UA-cam.🙃
Actually, I had to go look it up. LOL
ua-cam.com/video/wfj-jUB9-ts/v-deo.html
Sucks that I shot this on the iPhone with the zoom a 1.6x and it destroyed the quality 😬
@@TechThrowback I shot my first year or so on an iphone lol
yep, I had one... gotta go find a pay phone!
I can't remember when I last saw a pay phone, maybe 2002?
Personal pagers weren’t that big of a thing in Australia in the 80s and 90s
Should I be concerned if my doctor still wears a pager?
Rumor has it I'm still trying to set the clock on mine.
Oh, the pagers lol
Dude, Motorola pagers were the one to have!!
I just got one, can't wait to fire it up and make a video 💯
Nonsense. I thought this vid was pretty smooth. You've done enough video work that whatever you do is going to look smooth. Now, when are you going to review/cover the Commodore 64 or 128? My favorite computer of all time (I'm old).
I still use a pager everyday I work for a hospital and I'm required to
Well second subscriber, fuck yeah this is cool, you are like dankpods but American and with.coolerncars
Thanks for being here! ❤️
Imagine still having a phone with mirco usb in 2022
you should do the motorolla time port cell phone.
Just got one!
@Tech Throwback nice! That was my first phone in my early twenties. Back in the day it was the best of the best. And I had a whole 20 minutes of talk time per month!
what about the classic motorola pager? I was a straight pimp with mine and I even had a chain to attach it to my pants. (Had to keep it chained to prevent it from being stolen around the ATL in the '90s.
Got one, making a video with it!
doctors still use them
Do you know if the hotel is pager friendly…?
Any interest in 1st gen Blackberry?
Hey
Dose amber still have the tracker?
Hey!
i sill own three pagers too
don't work now. i even own a two way pager
Interesting 👍. What did the monthly subscription service cost?
It used to be about $10 bucks a month for what service you wanted.
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