![]() ![]() We had one to share with the whole room and it sat alongside the recently introduced departmental electronic calculator which was developed around the same time, replacing the mechanically sophisticated but cumbersome pinwheel calculator. This piece of advanced technology created a certain excitement when it first arrived in the Sharps Pixley dealing room. Then, around 1968, came the first piece of equipment for the information revolution in dealing rooms – the Reuters Ultronic Stockmaster. There was, out of necessity, much more contact and camaraderie between competing dealers then, as they needed each other. How, in those days, did a dealer keep up with the market to evaluate his position, or when called upon to make a price? By following ticker tape for news and talking to other dealers to check their prices. In the 1960s, there were no screens and no live price data. For many decades, dealers have been accustomed to being surrounded by a myriad of screens with limitless price data and information on which they can rely when dealing and making quotes. ![]()
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