My 1st modem
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Nice, I still recall mine, it was a lovely Maestro 2400, identical to the one in this picture below. The green LEDs were really nice on the eyes for late night, BBS sessions.
I was in awe of their customer service - despite me buying it second hand, they upgraded the firmware for free, out of warranty. I just had to take it down to their local office, and they swapped out the EPROM on the spot. I don’t recall what the update improved, but I was happy.
Iirc, Maestro was an Aussie company, in fact I think they are still around.
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Oh man I had that modem. Atari made us purchase the serial converter to use the modem that plugged into the proprietary io jack.
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I used one of these. Allowed standard serial devices and standard floppy drives on the Atari as well as allowed you to use CPM...
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My slowest modem was a 56K modem and I'm happy with that being the case..... 
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I'm in there with the elders...my first was a Trash-80 300 baud that was sooo cool (well at least for us nerds ) in my day.
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Ok history buffs the AT was the modem attention command, DT was the dial tone then the phone number. If you had the extended command set you can set the number of rings before the modem would hang up using the S1="number of rings" and other attributes.
As i stated every modem maker introduced quirks not to be sued by Hayes for copying the command structures in entirety. Digital Equipment used a CTRL-B to wake up the modem and then a copy of the commands could be entered into the buffer and CTRL-C would activate the modem to execute the commands. Not every Hayes command was supported but a basic dialer in the terminal application could make their modems dial out.
If you were really good you would have a copy of Procomm Plus pre-configured with all sorts of macros to make your online sessions productive.
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Same, my first one was a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 in the mid '80s. Looking back, I'm not sure where my parents got the money for a brand new 8086, 5.25" floppy, 10MB HDD, and the 1200 baud modem.
I ran a BBS for probably about a month off of my dad's outgoing business line, which meant I could only run it after about 7pm in the evening. lol
+++ATH0
;lk409v-JV0ej909797d-mc a9df8-;lkie89 NO CARRIER
I actually still have it a box in the basement. double lol
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Attention DialTone, followed by the number to dial.
Never worked DEC so can't comment on that one.
Fun Fact. I had the first 1200 baud bbs on the east coast... (Bloom County BBS out of NJ), running on FoReM) running on a Hayes 1200.
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So you never wondered what happened to your little brother? 
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Cant happen soon enough. We need to stop with daylight savings..
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Agree. Saves me nothing, annoys me greatly. Harumph!!
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Not wrong! Turn it on and leave it there permanently!
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Sounds like any empire... I expect...
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So some people sleep in one position and don’t move all night??? That seems so odd… wouldn’t it get uncomfortable after a while?
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With me its my back and hip. Or making room for a dog.
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