Pic of the First Phone Sex Server
 

http://www.internetmanagementservice.../oldoffice.jpg

Found this pic today. Wow 18 years ago! There were only 100 900 numbers allocated for the entire US. We had 2 of them.

To the far right, an original IBM PC running DOS with the first digital audio cards developed for the new audiotext industry.

All the recorded phone sex fantasy messages were stored on the IBM PC then sent digitally to AT&T's NOC through the black boxes to the right of the PC, and then they were broadcast on AT&T's nationwide 900 pay-per-call network.

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cool !

Where's the mouse? lol

Were you one of the "operators"?

Everything was DOS based. I don't remember having a mouse yet.

The mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart. Apple paid $40,000 for the license to the patent. That was one of Steve Jobs coups for apple.



http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/...mouse/doug.jpg

Wow really cool, tanks for posting it :thumbsup

I know. I was just messing with you ;)

we've come along way havent we:thumbsup

so thats who I was talking to way back when...... got me thru many rough days!

Cool pic. It is amazing how far we have come... in both computers and stylish office furniture. :Graucho

I bet you made a fortune with that.

Amazing.

KRL, I would so much like to sit you down for lunch one day and pick your brain.

Indeed. That IBM PC/AT was so primitive by today's standards. The AT ran about two-and-a-half times faster then the PC XT, thanks to its 6 MHz, true 16-bit, 80286 CPU. 128K RAM. 10 Mb Hard drive.

Despite how basic it was, it did the job perfectly, handling about 2-3 million minutes a month without a glitch.

if only guys knew what they were jerking of to...

Yeh, pretty amazing. I used to look at that PC and think I can't believe its doing all the work and broadcasting everything for the first time digitally.

Before this 976 numbers were broadcast on looped industrial cartridge machines.

Old Skool!
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very stylish.
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wow thats cool i got a friend who collects these old computers he has a room full of them a cromemco mainframe takes so much power that he cant switch it on without switching off all the rest first hehe :1orglaugh

Thats cute :winkwink:

that's one sexy machine

i eat them :glugglug

That's really impressive!

How small were these recorded messages that they fit on a 10 meg HD?

And if I understand correctly, people called the 1-900 #, paid $X amount per minute and only listened to a recording? Man, some people are hard up!

You gotta love the 70s/80s style of office furniture :thumbsup

nice

That's awesome.

its amazing to see that and think of the difference between my experience with computers growing up and what my daughter is experiencing now and has to look forward to.. today's computers will no doubt seem antique to her when she's my age..

see i never woulda known that if you hadnt posted it. amazing how far we've come and how far we will go:thumbsup

wow nice pic! Have some of those XT pc's @ home:thumbsup

Amazing... KRL not to sound like an ass kisser but you are one of only maybe a handful here whos threads I actually take time out and study. :thumbsup

cool!:winkwink:

Awesome!

The last few weeks I saw a few TV ads, got spams and exit consoles promoting phone sex with regular cellphone numbers. I wonder how it works and how much they get per minute from the telecom.

There's also this site with HOT models posing non-naked (it turns me on, way better than porn) and with the cellphone numbers to hear something from the model.

Cool pic

Its amazing how far computers and sex have come.

Boy you must be fucking old lol.

I didn't even knew a digital soundcard existed way back. How mutch did you pay for a setup like that? I payed almost 2000$ for 1 pc AT way back with a 10 mb HD:helpme

You are most likely holding prior art for many IVR/telephone patents.


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Fight the P to the A to the T to the E to the N to the T!

3 to 5 minutes each. The recordings were pretty darn hot. Guys would call back like crazy.

Sample of an original recorded phone sex message

i think the only people who use those monitors now are bank tellers. wow were they small.

Lol ! did you made some cash ?

very cool!

Hahahaha, pretty funny message lol ! :Graucho

We created a lot of concepts that have been knocked off by others.

We had one company attempt to claim they had a patent on recorded audio years after. We said "Oh really, want to place a little wager on that?" Sent them some supporting docs and never heard from them again. :Graucho :BangBang:

AT&T shareholders did very well from the phone sex industry.

I can't remember but I know we got jacked pretty good on it cause the sound cards were brand new technology developed expressly for the audiotext industry that was emerging.

I think it was around $10K and we bought one backup box also.

Back then you had to pay AT&T $30,000 for each 900 number also.

So AT&T made $3 Million just off the upfront fees alloting the first 100 numbers.

The cost of PCs in those day was out of site. Remember the North Star - If memory services, it was like 5 grand for comuter and printer. Of course that was with dual five and quarter floppies.

$3K for an HP Laserjet III

Nice photoshop! You should have put Juicy in there with his pimp outfit.

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I had the HP Laserjet III. That was the most solid printer ever. What a workhorse that baby was.

One-way phone sex. Interesting concept, I guess I never would have imagined that would sell.

Time is changed, but I can believe horny people paid for that messages

Would never stop! Think I had to break it on purpose to move on.

HP is NOT building to that quality anymore.

Of course HP really isn't HP anymore, At least in my opinion. They sold off their start and core biz along time ago. HP started in a garage making and selling test equipment. An American Dream come true. Think they started with like $8k. Maybe less?