Talk:IBM PCradio

A fact from IBM PCradio appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 November 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that IBM spent US$50 million to develop the PCradio and expected to sell 100,000 units, but ended up selling just under 10,000?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:55, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that the IBM PCradio could receive faxes twice as fast as it could receive standard cellular data?~~ Source: "4,800 bits per second (bps) in wireless communications and ... a 9,600-bps facsimile." 3
- ALT1:... that IBM spent $50 million to develop the PCradio and expected to sell 100,000 units, but ended up selling just under 10,000? Source: "IBM spent an estimated $50 million to develop the PCradio, but it sold fewer than 10,000 of them, according to En Route Technology, a computer trade publication." 1

Reviewed: SpaceX Starship

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 09:10, 5 October 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Article meets DYK requirements and is free from close paraphrasing. QPQ is still pending (note that, per an RfC, nominators are encouraged to finish their QPQs within a week of a nomination to prevent the risk of the nomination being failed). Assuming good faith for ALT0's source, while ALT1's fact is verified in the source; both hooks are cited inline. However, the quote provided here for ALT0 refers to "wireless communications" rather than "cellular data". Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:13, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: Sorry about the QPQ thing, life got in the way. The fax capability threw me for a loop but I finally figured it out: the cellular model can send and receive faxes, while the landline can only send them, and the ARDIS radio model cannot do faxes at all (per LA Times). I have added a citation to that LA Times article and have clarified the spotty nature of its fax capability. DigitalIceAge (talk) 03:53, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the edits. However, as you said, the fax thing only applied to one particular model, so ALT0 would need to be revised to clarify that the fact only refers to a specific model rather than to the whole line. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:18, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2:... that the cellular model of IBM PCradio, introduced in 1991, could wirelessly receive faxes twice as fast as standard data?

Added date of introduction to accentuate the fact that this is very early days for cellular computing, let me know what you think. DigitalIceAge (talk) 17:47, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. I've struck ALT0 as ALT2 is an improved version. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:12, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I see no more issues, so I'm approving both hooks. I don't have a real preference so I'll leave the final choice to the promoter. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 16:21, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1 to T:DYK/P6