| Calling devices |
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| Basic communication devices |
USA Today |
02 Apr 2025 |
| Devices on which "143" meant "I love you" |
USA Today |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Beepers |
LA Times Daily |
15 Oct 2024 |
| Signalling equipment and repaired gear detailed in extra section of letter (6) |
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| Beepers |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Oct 2023 |
| Beepers |
Universal |
13 Jun 2023 |
| Beepers |
USA Today |
14 May 2023 |
| On-call devices |
LA Times Daily |
18 Sep 2022 |
| Waiters at busy restaurants might be handed them |
New York Times |
09 Mar 2022 |
| Forerunners of cellphones |
New York Times |
18 Sep 2019 |
| Forerunners of cellphones |
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| Cellphone forerunners |
Jonesin |
01 Jan 2019 |
| Physicians' devices |
Newsday |
08 Apr 2018 |
| Obsolescent communications devices |
New York Times |
22 Mar 2017 |
| Obsolescent communications devices |
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| Notifying devices, once |
Universal |
02 Nov 2016 |
| Beepers |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Jul 2016 |
| On-call doctors' devices |
Universal |
08 Jan 2016 |
| On-call doctors' devices |
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| Notifying devices, once |
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| Doctors' beeping clip-ons |
Newsday |
03 Nov 2015 |
| Cellphone forerunners |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Aug 2015 |
| Doctors' beeping clip-ons |
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| Cellphone forerunners |
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| Clip-on beepers |
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| Cells displaced them |
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| Used by record execs in the '90s |
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| Message receivers |
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| The first ones were introduced in 1950 by physicians in the New York City area |
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| Obsolescent communication devices |
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| Beepers |
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| They may interrupt meetings |
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| Cell-phone predecessors |
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| Motorola products |
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| Clip-on devices |
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| Beeping devices |
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| Clip-on communicators |
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| On-call doctors' devices |
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| Cellphone forerunners |
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| Belt beepers |
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| Items on belts |
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| Electronic clip-ons |
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| On-call gizmos |
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| Annoyances in the theater |
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| Logan or LAX callers |
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| Locating devices |
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| Items on belts |
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| They let you know you're wanted |
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| Beepers |
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| Communication devices |
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| Vocal bellboys. |
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