I had a modem on my 386 that was an external 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem like Cyn had. When I upgraded to my Packard Bell 486/66 I got a nice shiny 56k to play Duke Nukem 3d and connect to AOL 3.0.
I remember using this modem once at the computer shop I worked at when I was 13. Had a guy who bought this brand new (when it first came out) and used it on the job. For what? I can't even remember. It was hand held and had a little 2 line LCD screen that you could type numbers into. I thought it was the greatest thing ever because it looked SO OLD back in... the early 90's. It kinda looked like this.
