The Philips Data Books were honking slabs of book documenting the characteristics of the many, many electronic products and pieces of electronic products produced by that huge Dutch multi-national. They normally had covers as exciting as you’d expect for technical manuals, but for some reason this 90s idea of a futuristic video phone showed up on the cover of the 1993 RF/Wireless Data Book. Rubberized hexagonal keys? What appears to be a personal assistant from a store-brand version of Devo? Sign me up!
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The Philips Data Books were honking slabs of book documenting the characteristics of the many, many electronic products and pieces of electronic products produced by that huge Dutch multi-national. They normally had covers as exciting as you’d expect for technical manuals, but for some reason this 90s idea of a futuristic video phone showed up on the cover of the 1993 RF/Wireless Data Book. Rubberized hexagonal keys? What appears to be a personal assistant from a store-brand version of Devo? Sign me up!
The 1993 edition doesn’t seem to be online but Internet Archive has [the 1994 book](https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_philipsdat17RFCommunicationsDataHandbook_70528406), if you want to read it because you’re having trouble falling asleep or something.