Home Networking over Telephone and More

Motorola's Quantar base radio[0] had, in its original incarnations, a 68040 at its heart running pSOS.

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.

[0] https://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/quantar/pdfs/quant...

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.

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.