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
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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!

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