I was trawling the Internet this evening and couldn’t help but let you know about this little piece of history I found.  Not that I’m one to harp on about the good old days but some of the people working within the pre-media industry now are too young to have even worked with ISDN, to remember how easy it was to get files to and from customers.  There was only one way of sending files via ISDN - 4-Sight or Hermstedt.

For those old timers in the industry who remember using ISDN here’s an article by John Henshall called “SAY GOODBYE TO THE WORLDWIDE WAIT“.  It gives a good insight into what ISDN did for the graphic arts industry and is a completely nostalgic trip down memory lane.  Written in 2000 it really wasn’t that long ago either, shows how quickly technology and in particular file transfer technology moves forward!

As the last supplier of ISDN products to the graphic arts and prepress industry I feel its our duty to provide for users a bit of the history of file transfer.  John’s story reflects the position of many graphics businesses of the time who wanted to reduce the time to market and reduce the cost of sending disks, scans and other images using couriers.

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