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Of course. I just wasn't aware that there were modems for the IIe.

The "Penny Whistle" modem came out in 1976, but hobbyists had been building their own for years.

People had been connecting mechanical Teletypes via modems since the 1950's.

I was using a modem with the II or IIe in 1983 to dial into a BBS