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My modem had a built in speaker
Specifically, GSM phones would do this
They all did. GSM was just a little stronger.
Yeah, I definitely remember this from before GSM was a thing
No, my dial up modem in my desktop pc. Some. Pcs use the external speaker, some used the motherboard speaker and my dial up modem had its own speaker. God forbid someone picked up a phone to dial.
Dial up modems, like the ones the poster mentioned, could receive incoming phone calls as part of their normal function