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The crowd I ran with in college were the types to order a home-based T-1 service, and it was absurd how unobtainable ISDN was. We'd receive Sun workstations on

The crowd I ran with in college were the types to order a home-based T-1 service, and it was absurd how unobtainable ISDN was. We'd receive Sun workstations on our desk (I worked for an ISP) and we'd sort of chuckle at the built-in ISDN interface while we connected the 10BASE2. We never sold ISDN links; our modems were state-of-the-art 14.4K or you could go Frame Relay, leased line, SMDS. We did maintain one leased digital 14.4K line, due to some unique circumstance, and I still wish I could forget.

Bluestein 2y ago
> and I still wish I could forget. May I ask why?
- AStonesThrow 2y ago
  Sure, being a unique situation it also presented unique support challenges, and I seem to recall that the link was the one that most often turned red on our network map, perhaps even teasing us as it flapped up/down for a while, and we sat with bated breath to see whether it really required our undivided attention. Also I suppose that it was considered the least important of our "dedicated" customer links, being legacy/low-cost, so most of us would've welcomed an upgrade to something more "1990s". Many providers have ways of passive-aggressively dealing with legacy customers until they upgrade or go to the competition. My DSL ISP sent me into the arms of the cable provider about 12 years ago.