WECO Dataphone 4800 meets this description, and would have had a bell logo on the front bezel On 12/24/2021 9:22 PM, John Heritage via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I'm trying to find a picture of my first modem online, and can't seem to find one..
I remember my first modem (I was ~ 7 years old or ~ 1983-1984 when we first got it, but had it for years later) being a 300 baud "Bell" modem. I *believe* it had an acoustic coupler, but it *might but I do not remember needing to use it to initiate connections to BBSes at the time. I'm not sure if there were hybrid modems where they still had an acoustic coupler, but also supported auto dial of some kind.
My memory also tells me it was a black modem, rectangular (metal?) exterior. I think the modem might have said "Bell Labs" rather than just Bell on the front. I'm also 95% sure that the modem .. disappeared .. from Bell thanks to a family member who worked there/at AT&T (and also was an Atari 800 owner like us). We attached this modem (and later modems) to an Atari 850 interface, so it had a standard serial interface.
Lastly, I'm certain it was *not* a Bell 103 modem - which would have been positively ancient by the early 80s, but some other design from Bell. Or at least not an original appearance one..
I know 100% for sure my *next *modem was an Avatex 1200 baud modem - which is really easy to find a pic of: https://atariage.com/forums/calendar/event/87-basement-bbs-upgrades-modem-an.... This became the modem for our first BBS in 1986.
Anyway, any ideas what modem / model this might have been? Total shot in the dark, especially as my memory may be wrong here, but I figured this is the group to ask..
Thanks! John