Post #737598
2026-03-11 13:57 UTC
Today’s eBay Pager purchase came brand new SEALED in the box with an included aaa battery that expired in Jan 2001!
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@sammachin@chaos.social 2026-03-11 14:02
If you're wondering, no the battery doesn't have enough to power up the pager...
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@nblr@chaos.social 2026-03-11 14:12
@sammachin TIL, that Ericsson made pagers which even included the motorola-proprietary «FLEX» protocol instead of standard POCSAG signalling. Interesting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_FLEX