Oldsmobile-88
Very well known Exeweb poster
A very basic version not a laptop as we know today.1996 that's early days for laptops being used for work!
It was only able to be used to receive work & transmit a complete a job report through a upgraded radio system that was installed.The radio was state of the art for the time.So good that someone in the know gave us the 16 digit number that could be inputted into the radio keypad,to hack into the BT network unrecorded one of the lads contacted family in Australia.It was awkward because you were using a hand set,so had to remember to say ‘Over’ when using it on the phone network.
Transco got wind of the wheeze & were worried they would lose their license to use radio frequencys if it got out & reminded everyone it was illegal.
We used Go Tough-Book Laptops from around 2003.
The industry was ahead of many others in that respect.