Re: Stock Market Ticker Tape Machines?

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.

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Robert Bonomi
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