Absolutely it happened, but it was uncommon. My dad had a Teletype at home in the 1970s, with a 110-baud acoustic coupler. Later upgraded to an ADM-3A and speed

Absolutely it happened, but it was uncommon. My dad had a Teletype at home in the 1970s, with a 110-baud acoustic coupler. Later upgraded to an ADM-3A and speed went to 300-baud. I credit this for sparking some interest in programming, as I was able to use these to play around with small FORTRAN and BASIC programs.