How the years rush by ..
It doesn't seem like a quarter of a century - until you remember big calculators, telexes, creaky mainframes and customer loyalty ... Liz Booth goes back down the road to 1979
In the old days, computers were the stuff of science fiction and even calculators seemed impossible to imagine - but in a frighteningly sIhort space of time computers, complete with email, internet and intranet, have become everyday items.
Plenty of brokers who are still working started their careers in the days before electronic calculators, when rating tables and tariffs were the order of the day. And even when computers were introduced, they were far from the real-time beasts used today.
Peter
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