-=> Chris Green wrote to The Natural Philosopher <=-

 CG> I believe quite a lot of 'base' phone provision in Germany until a few
 CG> years ago was actually ISDN rather than analogue POTS.

 I loved ISDN back in the day. I ran a BBS off of one B channel,
 hunted to the other B channel on a busy, used the second channel to
 connect to the internet to download packets, or nailed both channels
 up to a Shiva LAN Rover at work to browse the web and work from home.

 If only the US pricing weren't prohibitive. Analog residential phone
 service is/was flat rate, but ISDN was measured rate all day. It
 might have dropped at night, I don't recall.

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