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Photo of the right corner of push button phone, the top left corner of a Commodore VIC-20 at the bottom, and a brown and silver VICMODEM cartridge plugged into the back of it. A telephone coil cable was removed from the handset and plugged into the modem.

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Photo of the right corner of push button phone, the top left corner of a Commodore VIC-20 at the bottom, and a brown and silver VICMODEM cartridge plugged into the back of it. A telephone coil cable was removed from the handset and plugged into the modem.
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paulrickards (paulrickards@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:52:43 JST paulrickards

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!
#RetroComputing #Commodore #VIC20 #VICModem #Modem #Dialup

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