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...What is this? Carnival?" marveled an American tourist in Costa Rica's flag-bedecked capital, San José. It sure sounded that way. All day long, happy motorists jammed the main drag, Central Avenue, while tapping out beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep on their horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica Shows How, Again | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Today such cards, as well as punched tape, are still used. But they have been supplemented by other methods, including magnetic tapes, discs and drums; the precisely tuned beep-beeps of the Touch-Tone telephone (whose lower left and right buttons have been reserved for computer communications and other information processing); the familiar keyboard-and-TV unit; optical scanners that can "read" characters at high speeds; electronic ears that can recognize a limited number of spoken words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Science: The Numbers Game | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...Beep. Beep. A small black box in the pocket of an Omaha business executive emits an electronic hiccup; its owner leaves a conference table to phone his stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chorus of Beepers | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...companies now either manufacture beepers or operate beeper networks. In most systems, the caller dials a seven-digit number that feeds into a central computer. There the number is translated into a coded radio signal and fed by phone lines to a radio transmitter that sends the beep to the designated pocket receiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chorus of Beepers | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...uses for beepers are legion. Children in affluent La Jolla, Calif., get beeped home to dinner. Guests at Manhattan's Statler Hilton who expect important calls can rent beepers for $5 a day, then go sightseeing. By June, a caller will be able to beep from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles via satellite. A Boston narcotics peddler used top-line $300 models to keep track of his 13 pushers-until he went to jail and the pushers made off with the pagers. The users most thoroughly hooked on pocket page calls may be ... well, hookers. The gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chorus of Beepers | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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