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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 I don't remember the actual first modem, which would have been 56K, but the one I do remember is a Fritz two line ISDN modem that could do 64K or 128k!

The thing I remember very well was how quick the negotiation was with a quick zappy beep, instead of the regular modem sound. I've been trying to find a recording of that for years, but I haven't come across it anywhere. ISDN use was pretty limited worldwide.

paulrickards

@mejs Fascinating! I used to use ISDN at work a lot. Did you have ISDN service at home?

I did briefly in the form of IDSL which combined both B channels with the usually unused D channel to form one 144kbps link. Coming from a 56k modem, it was luxurious.

@paulrickards oh that's so interesting! I didn't know about 144kbps and IDSL.

We had ISDN at home for a minute, probably only a few years in the very early 2000s before ADSL. This was in Croatia.