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Posted by Reed on August 15, 2005, 3:37 am
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Robert Bonomi wrote:
>> I was wondering what kind of machine, if any, replaced the classic
>> glass-dome model and continued to produce a tape showing trades.
> The volume of data, and the required speed of transmission to stay
> more-or-less current with the actual market conditions outstripped the
> capability of 'tape' printers.
> Just as _telegram_ printing shifted to roll-feed wide paper, from the
> tape, what remained for dedicated mechanical printers did similarly.
> In the 60s, early-70s ...
> Bunker-Ramo came out with electronic quote display terminals, and
> practically owned the _broker_ market for a number of years.
> Telerate also came out with a CRT display supporting many, _many_
> 'pages' of display data -- everything from news stories to lists of
> latest market prices -- either as groups displayed simultaneously on a
> single 'page', or single issues as a streaming 'ticker' across the
> bottom of the screen.
other desktop quote machine providers of the time were Ultronic, and
Quotron. see http://claussstudios.bizland.com/realticker2.chtml for
some pictures.
-reed
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