When I Sent My First Wireless Email

(draft) A miracle then, ho-hum now.

In the 90s, tech companies often loaned me novel gear in the hope that I (and analysts and press like me) would write about them.

One of the most memorable bits of kit was a faux-leather zippered case that contained two items: a radio data modem from Motorola that used the Ardis network (later named DataTAC), which Moto and IBM had built for FedEx, as the network for its famous Cosmos