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What was your first modem? Mine was a 300 baud VICMODEM for my Commodore VIC-20 which included a type in terminal program in the user guide.

You had to manually dial the number with the phone, unplug the coil cable from the handset when you heard the carrier, and plug it into the modem!

@paulrickards @jimfl

Mine too was a TRS-80 Modem I. Although mine is white (like the Model 4) not 'battleship gray' or 'Mercedes Silver' (like the Models I, II, III and 16).

@jimfl @paulrickards also the TRS-80 Modem I found it in a cabinet at school they weren't using it so it went home with me.. used till i bought a hayes smartmodem (300 baud) then took it back to the school cabinet

@jimfl @paulrickards started my BBS on it which was a lot of work so I got the smartmodem pretty quickly