On This Day in Telephone History March 9TH 1965 - The New York Stock Exchange placed its first talking computer into operation to provide an electronic stock quotation system for brokers. Subscribers were able to dial special telephones to a computer which responded with the latest sales data for any of 1,600 stocks listed on the exchange. Computer's voice was a prerecorded vocabulary of 126 words. Depending on the message length, the quotation service could handle up to 400,000 calls daily. The high-speed switching equipment was provided by the New York Telephone Company.

On This Day in Telephone History March 9TH 1965

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On This Day in Telephone History March 9TH 1965 – The New York Stock Exchange placed its First Talking Computer into operation to provide an electronic stock quotation system for brokers. Subscribers were able to dial special telephones to a computer which responded with the latest sales data for any of 1,600 stocks listed on the exchange. Computer’s voice was a prerecorded vocabulary of 126 words. Depending on the message length, the quotation service could handle up to 400,000 calls daily. The high-speed switching equipment was provided by the New York Telephone Company.