Pagers were a big deal for a while there, even if they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines did. Anyway, [Finnley Dolfin] had some pagers a…
I work in secure facilities where I can’t have any phones, smart watches, anything with wifi, microphones, etc. However, pagers are allowed since they receive only.
I was also pretty mobile, moving between buildings so calling my desk phone was very unreliable.
The pager service I got had an email gateway so my wife could either text or email messages to it.
I set up 2 iOS shortcuts to send emails. One said “call me when you can” and the other said “call me NOW”.
Pagers never died in the hospital
I used one in 2019 when my wife was pregnant.
I work in secure facilities where I can’t have any phones, smart watches, anything with wifi, microphones, etc. However, pagers are allowed since they receive only.
I was also pretty mobile, moving between buildings so calling my desk phone was very unreliable.
The pager service I got had an email gateway so my wife could either text or email messages to it.
I set up 2 iOS shortcuts to send emails. One said “call me when you can” and the other said “call me NOW”.