I clicked on the 1991 list of books. It was taking too long. They must still be on dial-up. Back in college (1982) we thought it was great to have the gizmo where we could put the handset of the telephone in it and get a connection to our work on the school’s mainframe. (It sure beat having to use the punch cards that we first learned on!)
I thought the punch cards were better than the paper tape...until you dropped them, anyway.
8700 baud (1988-89 CompuServe BBS), receiver in the cradle, was a lot of fun.