1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone(oldtelephoneroom.ca) |
1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone(oldtelephoneroom.ca) |
The late 70's and early 80's was an era of rapid evolution in modem technology. Within a year or two I had purchased a Hayes Smartmodem 1200, and had that connected to one of my CP/M computers.
I purchased several other modems over the years from US Robotics and Hayes. I think I purchased my last one in 1996, which was the year I got ISDN (2BRI).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT
As an aside, the em-dash density of this article is one of the highest I've ever seen.
They are useless because they're identical to the customer's own phone except for the fact they say Commodore.
But in the 80s nobody gave a crap anymore and we just connected whatever we wanted. Aftermarket and technically illegal phones were sold everywhere.