Coming out of the teahouse, the group came to the street.

"Mr. Wan, where are we going now?"

Wan Feng asked Ye Qianwen as he walked: "Is it still so difficult to buy Big Brother in Shenzhen now?"

Ye Qianwen shook his head: "I can't buy it at all, even if I ask someone to buy it." ”

"And what about pagers?"

To Wan Feng's surprise, Ye Qianwen dared to show a blank expression on the pager.

"How did you do it, you bastard, you don't even know the BP machine?"

"It turned out to be a BP machine, didn't you just say that the BP machine was over, you got a pager and confused me, the pager seems to be available, but it seems that few people wear that thing?"

In 83, the first paging station in Shanghai appeared in China, and the BP machine at that time could only accept the call signal, and the user needed to call the paging station to inquire about the call-back number.

In 84 years, Guangzhou opened a digital paging station, and the return number could directly appear on the BP machine, which greatly improved the convenience of using the pager.

However, this change did not bring about a qualitative change in the development of the BP machine, and in the following years, this instant messaging tool, which seemed advanced at the time, was given a cold reception. Because people don't understand the use of this small black box that can make noise, and the price of more than 2,000 yuan is already a year's salary of ordinary people at that time, the development of BP machines has been tepid.

It was not until the Beijing Asian Games in 90 that everyone in the conference wore a BB machine, and the BB machine began to be known to the majority of the people, and it began to enter thousands of households.

Shenzhen's wireless paging industry was founded in October 1984 as the first paging station established by Telecom.

But as in the rest of the country, it is still half-dead.

Even people like Ye Qianwen, who have been in Shenzhen for more than two years, haven't seen a few people wearing that thing.

"Where can I buy it?"

"Sege!"

Wan Feng patted his head, SEG is specialized in electronic products, and of course the pager will set up a stall in SEG.

"Let's go to SEG now. ”

Everyone didn't know why Wan Feng suddenly asked about the pager, and then went to Saige again.

But without objection, he turned around and ran away from Saige.

The SEG market is very large, and each stall is very small, and it is not much different from finding a needle in a haystack to find a stall in it.

If you have an acquaintance to lead the way, it will save a lot of time.

Xu Bin became Wan Feng's expected acquaintance.

It's a pity that this acquaintance is half-baked, and Xu Bin doesn't know where to sell pagers in this hall.

Fortunately, the neighbor of his stall knew that the stall where the pager was was there, and the girl with a bit of a collapsed nose personally took Wan Feng and them to the stall that sold pagers.

The stall is more than a meter wide and several meters long, and is blocked by high baffles on the left and right, like a dark corridor.

There are only two brands of BB machines on the counter: Motorola and Panasonic, both of which are the earliest vertical BP machines that look upright at one end.

This is one of the ugliest pagers in the pager.

Motorola's best-looking digital pager, Wan Feng, has always thought that it is a pocket-sized horizontal model, and he used that model in his last life.

It's such an ugly pager, and the price tag for each is 1,600 yuan.

There is also a piece of paper next to it, which says 100 yuan for access to the network and 120 yuan for service fees.

Paralysis is really expensive.

In the last life, Wanfeng had a pager for 98 years, and at that time, it was no longer necessary to access the network, and the service fee for a month was only 30 yuan.

But now it's eight or eight years, and it's normal to be expensive.

There wasn't a single customer at the counter, and a young waitress at the counter was idly manicure.

The girl's nails are very serious, which is really a manifestation of idleness.

Seeing Wan Feng and his party coming over, he just glanced up, and then continued to bow his head to trim her nails.

There are a lot of people who come and go here every day, but there are very few people who buy them, and the girl simply turns a blind eye in order not to waste her expression and smile.

Wan Feng knocked on the glass of the counter: "Miss, buy a pager." ”

The little girl with manicure looked at Wan Feng with a little disbelief: "You want to buy a pager?"

Wan Feng was speechless, six people came to your counter and didn't buy a pager to see you manicure!

Wan Feng nodded.

The girl put down the nail clippers in her hand and came to the counter: "What style do you want to buy?"

There are two styles of BB machines on the counter, and there is no room for choice.

"Can you get a discount on the BB machine you sell?"

The girl shook her head without thinking about it, and the boss said that if you buy three or five units, you can have a moderate discount, and one or two units have no discount.

"What if I buy more? For example, if I want to buy 10 units, how much will I get a discount?"

"I don't know about this, I'll have to ask the boss. "She'd never met someone who bought 10 pagers.

"Notify your boss immediately, and say that there is a big customer. ”

The girl was skeptical: "Do you really want to buy ten pagers?"

"Do you think I'm joking with you? Hurry up, it's better to ask your boss to arrive in ten minutes, we're in a hurry." ”

The girl locked the counter, called the neighbor next to her to take care of it, and swooped out to page.

There is a public phone in the mall, and her boss is wearing a pager, so it is not difficult to find his boss.

"What's the use of this thing?" asked Ye Qianwen while looking at the pager on the counter.

At the time, many people didn't know what such a gadget could do.

"Find someone to use it. ”

"It can find people, how can it find them?"

"It's very simple, each pager has a fixed number and there is a pager. Suppose I want to find you, I will call the pager where your pager is located, and ask the pager to page you, then your pager will make a beeping sound, you will know that someone is looking for you, you take out the pager and you will see the phone number looking for you. ”

"And then?"

"Then you just find the phone to find you and call you back, you all understand?"

Everyone nodded in unison.

Ye Qianwen blinked his eyes and asked a novel question: "Then what if I can't find the phone?"

"Then don't reply, rest assured that there will be more and more public telephones in the future, and there will be rows of telephones on both sides of the street, and there is no possibility of finding the phone. ”

When the IC card phone comes out, there are phone booths everywhere.

In another decade or so, more and more people will have mobile phones, and calling back will not be a problem at all.

But then again, when mobile phones are almost popularized, BB machines will also withdraw from the stage of history.

This thing has been popular for a few years, and when the BB machine in Shenzhen was the most popular, it was said that there were no three people with a pager, and a paging lady could paging more than 10,000 times a month.

How about letting Zhang Xuan dry the pager?

Wan Feng's head flashed with such a thought.

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