Talk:Stock market data systems

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Stock Market quotation systems
Some systems described in this section of the article applied technological innovations that ramified to a wide range of historical applications. As evidence, this section of the article refers to names of entities about which relevant information can be found embedded in other articles, including Control Data Corporation (CDC160A), Dataphone (Swedish Telephone Company?), Quotron (the company?), Scantlin Electronics, Inc. (Jack Scantlin?), Teleregister ("Reservisor" article), Ultronics (acquired by General Telephone). An increased use of transclusions beyond those in the References and External links sections would significantly improve the completeness of the treatment.

Newspapers receive only one mention in the article, even though newspapers have been the way most people received financial information right up until the era of the Internet. Stock quotations and daily transactions reported in newspapers called for the development over the years of deadline-driven systems (from "on-line" manual typesetting by tweezers to remote linotype by teletype to phototypesetting by satellite). A separate section might be advisable.

The following passage deserves more specificity: "Ultimately all of these specialized systems were replaced by market programs which ran on personal computers." Personal computers may have replaced the "desk units," but communications played a crucial role (beginning with private networks, presumable, and perhaps "ultimately" exploiting the Internet). Most needed in the article are dates and names of the earliest software for on-line accessing of stock information. Paul Niquette (talk) 16:55, 6 September 2010 (UTC)