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 a Concord Data Systems 224 modem that my dad brought home from work in 1991. The modem was made in 1983 and was 2400 baud which was really fast for its time. The only downside was that it didn’t have autodial, so I had to pick up the phone to dial BBSes by hand.
@polpo Wow that must have been expensive in 1983! That modem looks like it means business.