[GreenKeys] ticker tape ID, and pics from Andromeda Strain

[gfmurphy at earthlink.net]

The Dow-Jones printer was known as the "Broad Tape."  It printed
on a paper roll that was 5 inches wide - hence the name.  For more
information on the Dow-Jones printer, go to the following URL:
    http://www.lostwackys.com/tickers/dow-jones/
There are some very nice pictures of the machine.  They appear
on ebay every once in a while.  The clipboard and the scissors
were part of the printer set-up.  Also on the page (lower left
hand side) is a link to the Black Box Ticker - also know as the
Teletype 5 or 5A ticker.  The Pacific Coast Stock Exchange in
San Francisco was still using the 5A ticker in 1966 while subscribers
to the New York Stock Exchange were using the Teletype 150 WPM
ticker.  Even the newer ticker (which used an aggregate motion
linkage like the Model 37) couldn't keep up with the trading on
busy days and it was gone in a few years.
Jerry Murphy


-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Jan 2, 2010 11:58 AM
>To: gil at baudot.net
>Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] ticker tape ID, and pics from Andromeda Strain
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>Almost certainly one of the glass-bell-jar style of tickers.  I don't know
>exactly when the Teletype ticker came into service, but it was
>around 1930.
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>Something I've never seen, and I don't know who made it, but Dow-Jones
>had a "bulletin printer" that printed on a narrower page than a regular
>Teletype.  Believe it used 6-level code.  I saw one on ebay once, in
>an art-deco style cabinet and pedestal.  So the scrap of page printer
>copy could have come from a Model 12 (news wire service) or from a
>bulletin printer (financial news wire service).
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>jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
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