Motorola's Quantar base radio[0] had, in its original incarnations, a 68040 at its heart running pSOS.<p>PhoneNet was an option (along with 10base2) to connect base radios together on IntelliRepeater trunking sites, but I've never heard of PhoneNet actually being used. BNC connectors and RG-58 are easy to come by in the land mobile radio industry, so I don't know why Motorola bothered. IntelliRepeater site LANs extend no further than a couple of racks.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/quantar/pdfs/quantar-instr-manual.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/quantar/pdfs/quant...</a>
Ah, the explosion of technologies in response to the need to share the very expensive, very limited and scarce resource of printers in offices and homes.<p>File sharing and multi-user access to data was important, but giving people the ability to print as if they had a personal printer on their desk was golden.