Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!intek01!mark From: mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ISDN Summary: You won't need a modem, but you will need a board. Message-ID: <327@intek01.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 88 16:57:37 GMT References: <18.23040D6B@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG> Reply-To: mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) Organization: Intek, Inc., Bellevue WA Lines: 26 Mark.Medici@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Medici) wrote: > My understanding is that you won't need a modem with ISDN, that it > will accept digital signals. I also beleive that there will be an > interface to allow non-ISDN data equipment to be used on ISDN lines, > but you might need a similar setup at both ends. You won't need a modem, but you will need another sort of board to handle the ISDN protocol. Actually, I believe that Hayes has a prototype board they're using in an ISDN trial in their corporate offices around Atlanta. I read that ISDN chipsets exist, so I don't think there's any obstacle to cheap ISDN if enough of them were sold. Some information-services entrpreneur needs to build a $400 ISDN-capable PC about four years hence and bundle with it a classified ad/news/computer game/traffic report/anything else you could think of system. Could be the real "information appliance" that the MacIntosh was supposed to be. Could destroy the residential real estate industry. Oh boy! -- Mark McWiggins UUCP: uunet!intek01!mark DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong. INTERNET: intek01!mark@uunet.uu.net (206) 455-9935