In 1985 Pacific Bell initiated work on "Project Victoria", a proposed rollout of digital interactive services to the home based on ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) technology.
“In 1985, when Pacific Bell was rolling out the demonstration
of 'Project Victoria', its invented and user-controllable DSL
technology (later disallowed by the FCC and Judge Greene), John
helped by designing the user interface for what was one of the
1st high speed residential multiservice applications in the US
... accomplished with customary taste, haste and under less than
perfect circumstances.”
Jeff
Richards, Pacific Bell
Visionary Model, Macintosh & Apple products, ISDN delivery environment; sales of TCS software