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 mine was the commodore 1670, at a blazing 1200 baud
@brhfl Awesome! I had one of those too. I remember it made a carrier noise over the speaker when it powered up.
@paulrickards the googly eyes are perfect