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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
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Subject: Re: 19200bps
Keywords: 19200 bps
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Date: 8 May 91 08:43:52 GMT
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In article <1991May6.035952.18592@netcom.COM> rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) writes:
>The key phrase here is "When will ISDN be easily available?"
>I wish there were more people hollering for it; I can't wait.  I refuse to
>buy a grossly expensive 9600 baud modem to run on a lowly, pathetic
>VOICE LINE.  Everybody say "I want my ISDN!"

The city council of Davis, CA has decided that Davis is going to be
the first city anywhere to go ISDN.  Why?  I don't know.  I think they
are going to link up with the university, which will be nice.

A recent newspaper article mentioned the cost of a card for hooking up
to the ISDN link -- about the cost of a high-speed modem, not to
mention the cost of getting the link installed....

When will this be ready?  Probably before I finish my Ph.D.

On a side note, the San Francisco talk radio station (KGO 810 AM) had
a guest speaker who talked about faxes.  He said that the next
standard for fax machines will transmit a page in 4 seconds.  I called
up the show and got him to admit that this would require ISDN optical
lines.  He also said that CCITT has already approved this standard for
the next generation.  He also said that there IS in fact a method for
error correction in modern faxes, to eliminate the degrading effect of
line noise, contrary to what someone here once said.

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.