Crossword-Solution: PAGER 5 letters, 123 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

One product, already on the market, is described as "[a handheld] alphanumeric pager, an XT-compatible computer with a backlit screen and PCMCIA Type III slot, a fax/modem, a cellular and land-line phone, and a voice recorder"! You are welcome to believe all or none of these predictions.

Between the primitive hunters and those who in our days identify their presence by all kinds of devices-a badge, a pager, a mobile phone, an access card, a password-there is a difference in the means and forms used to acknowledge the shared awareness that affects the outcome of the experience.

The traces of this pious and innocent inquisition were easily effaced, for the good mother possessed a whole arsenal of steel tools, some very sharp, to cut the pager imperceptibly round the seal--others, pretty little rods, to be slightly heated and rolled round the edge of the seal, when the letter had been read and replaced in its envelope, so that the wax, spreading as it melted, might cover the first incision.

Even these simple jobs actually consist of multiple processes, including the man process and the pager more, which handles scrolling one page at a time.

They were preceded by a curious figure called _pager_, a man covered from head to foot with dry grass and dead banana leaves, who sidled along with an unsteady rolling gait in a zigzag course, keeping his head bowed, his red-painted hands clasped in front of his face, and his elbows sticking out from both sides of his body.