Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: 19200bps Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 20:57:52 GMT References: <1991May5.185645.12902@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May5.201708.452@cec1.wustl.edu> <1492@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991May6.035952.18592@netcom.COM> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 26 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!" > >------------- >Ben Discoe, radical ecologist, computer scientist, visionary at large. Well, Motorola's new 68302 microcomputer (a 68HC000 with gobs of IO on-chip) has ISDN capability. It costs around $50 in sample quanities. Add on another $50 in drivers (worst case) and maybe $10 for the board and plastic and I can see an ISDN phone on the order of $110 bucks. (don't forget the x5 industry multiples the cost by :-))... So I would guess an introduction around $300-$500 with the price dropping fast if it catches on. -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA