Talk:Ticker tape

message: I intentionally included information about some related topics, such as "stock ticker machines", as I doubt there would be people interested in developing a full article on such a historic footnote. Niteowlneils 22:11, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Related info

message: Can't believe this was inserted and not reverted.  Did the artist herself contribute this? ″Ticker tape was also incorporated into some of the innovative weaver Dorothy Liebes' unusual art textiles." 
ConradArchguy (talk) 06:13, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Obscure artist advertisement

message: The 'Universal Stock Ticker' link points back to the same page!
81.130.114.232 12:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faulty Link? 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Stockticker.gif

message: I am not sure but I believe that the stock volume that shows on the tape is not the number of shares transacted but the number of hundreds of shares bought or sold.  Am I correct?  Does the article need to be corrected?  TIA, markSonador21 (talk) 16:44, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In the days of "tickers", the major exchanges traded only "round lots", multiples of 100 shares.  Ticker volumes reflected that.  Sales of less than 100 shares were handled by "odd lot houses", which carried a small inventory of each stock and bought and sold at a markup.. That's obsolete, and the odd lot houses are gone. --John Nagle (talk) 01:17, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stock volume 

message: Moved from Talk:Stock quote - better chance of seeing it here.  Astronaut (talk) 10:11, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think 76.85. has a point.  Astronaut (talk) 10:14, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Stock quote]] redirects here 

message: The claim "the earliest digital electronic communications medium" strikes me as odd, seeing that it was run using older telegraph technology. The only thing in the phrase that might introduce something new compared to existing technology would be "electronic"; however, then the article should demonstrate more clearly that the (early) tickers were electronic and that other telegraph technology was not.
My recommendation would be to rewrite the sentence entirely, considering additionally that the phrase as it stands is unlikely to be understandable to most laymen. (Most people will have no idea what "digital" actually means and the difference between e.g. "electronic" and "electric" will be a puzzler too. While I broadly speaking know electronics (and porn) when I see it, I am far from certain that I, myself, could give an accurate formal definition without looking it up. Further, it is becoming hard to find electric devices that are not also electronic, even for items that were electric or electro-mechanical in the past.)
80.226.24.8 (talk) 12:11, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's certainly not the first "electronic" medium as radio was using active electronic devices at the time printing telegraphs were still electromechanical. I would support "digital" though, as multi-bit codes like Baudot have moved away from analogue. Even the earlier "clock" automatic telegraphs using a single pulse and pulse position modulation had quantised this pulse timing. One might even make the case that the very early five-needle telegraph was using a directly manually entered multi-bit digital code. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:53, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Almost all telegraph systems are digital, being on/off devices. "Electronic" implies the use of tubes or transistors, which are considered "electron devices". See IEEE Electron Devices Society. "Ticker tape" came from digital signal, electromechanical, non-electronic machines. John Nagle (talk) 18:48, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the earliest digital electronic communications medium" 

message: In the 1970's these were used to store data (such as programs) at the university of Southampton Computing centre, pretty sure they must have been fairly widespread at that point for such use, although magnetic media were making them obsolete by before 1978. Still have a small tape (rolled on a spool) in my presence, so I guess they outlast magnetic media ;-). In a way they were complimentary to punched cards, which could store larger amounts of data but were vulnerable to "shuffling".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.48.215 (talk) 11:26, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use as a computer storage media 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Ticker tape is still used in Science classrooms today to analyse motion.
A ticker timer machine has a metal bar that oscillates at the AC electricity frequency and strikes carbon paper which leaves a dot on the ticker tape every 0.02 seconds (for a 50 Hz supply).
The tape is attached to a moving object so the ticker timer leaves a trail of dots on the paper. The distance between the dots can be measured to allow the velocity and acceleration of the object to be determined.
124.168.124.86 (talk) 20:56, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Present Day Usage