TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Old Stock Quotation Things?

Re: Old Stock Quotation Things?

AES/newspost (siegman@stanford.edu)
Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:10:11 -0700

In article <telecom23.504.9@telecom-digest.org>,
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) wrote:

> haynes@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes) wrote:

>> I've been going through some patents from the 1930s. ... What
>> was the application, or audience, for this kind of display?

Surely brings to mind the big noisy rotating "card flip-over"
mechanical displays that used to display arriving and departing
flights in major airports -- maybe still do in some cases.

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