From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!tpdcvax!bobvan Newsgroups: net.singles Title: Computer dating Article-I.D.: tpdcvax.161 Posted: Fri Sep 17 18:43:42 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 04:59:21 1982 The information about video dating has been interesting, but the topic of computer dating also seems like a natural for discussion in this news group. To get the discussion started, here is something you may not have heard about. Several people have put computer dating programs on their Apple computers and leave them to answer the phone when they're not home. The machines are called "Dial-a-match" and can be reached with any 300 baud modem and terminal. I got the phone numbers from net.micro (I think), but would be happy to mail them out or post them here if there is sufficient interest. A friend (female) and I (male) have called into one of the machines and filled out its inane "questionnaire". From the matches we got, it is clear that there are a lot more males than females in its date-a-base (clever, huh?). The machine we talked to had about 750 people on file. We didn't take it very seriously, as most of the matches were located in California where the machine is (where else?). I once went through a computer dating program as part of a class project, but the sample was ridiculously small and the results poor. Has anyone had good results with computer dating? Bob Van Valzah (...!decvax!ittvax!tpdcvax!bobvan)