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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>(At one time, my late wife was working from home.  Her employer set
>>>>her up with a home office.  The computer was connected with a 14,400
>>>>modem and the voice line was connected with am ISDN connection.  Yes,
>>>>their tech people decided on using digital for voice and analog for
>>>>data.  Not relevant to the videophone thread, but stream of
>>>>consciousness from the videophone over voice-line)
> 
>>>>Six months later, we went to broadband, and her office took over
>>>>paying the internet portion of our cable bill.
> 
>>>This is a quote from discussion in another newsgroup. He hasn't told
>>>me what year this was.
> 
>>>My only comment was, "Boggle".
> 
>>>ISDN for an extension for a single person and NOT shared with data?
>>>Have you ever heard of such a thing?
> 
>>from the 14.4 you'd think early 90s
> 
> I wonder. Looking it up, DOCSIS 1.0 is from March, 1997. I have no idea
> what the state of cable broadband was prior to adoption of DOCSIS.

I think it was just proprietary stuff prior to whatever revision to docsis 
was where it actually worked. 21st century had some sort of either zenith 
or nortel stuff, and prime had this bogus downstream only system where you 
needed an dialup account for upstream traffic. It was like an old data 
over satellite system.

> I was still using 2400 baud modems in the early 1990's, and 1200 baud modems
> in the mid 80s. I never used the latest and greatest. I don't recall
> using a 14.4 much, except as backup. I vaguely recall going from
> 2400 to 28.8 but I don't recall what year that was.

It was the late-ish 90s when I setup 56k dialup stuff at work with ISDN 
lines then eventually got ISDN at home and made the leap to 128k, which 
was a really big deal somehow. I used ISDN until maybe 5 years ago. There 
was some incident where I ended up dialing out thousands of times in a 
month when the RCN stopped unoficially supporting 2 B channel dialup into 
the analog dialup pools with one account.