Subject: [NEXTEL-1] GTE's Digicom

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:51:28 -0500

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This two-page advertisement appeared in the October 1971 issue of National Geographic magazine,

promoting GTE's "new" mobile data terminal with touch-screen, no less!
Also note the image of the "suspect" in the rearview mirror, and the reference to "he" as the dispatcher.

It appears the unit is installed in one of the NYPD's green-and-white Plymouth Fury patrol cars.

By the way, Oakland (Calif.) was reportedly the first agency to implement a two-way mobile data system in the U.S.,

and they did it using the Digicom gear.

The tiny screen on the left side of the unit appears to have 4 lines of 15 characters. In the original ad,

you can barely read a suspect description (male xxx, 30-38, 5-x, x10...armed with shotgun" on the screen.

The small print under the photo reads:

"...by the Sociosystems Products Organization of GTE Sylvania,

P.O. Box 188, Mountain View, Calif. 94040"