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They weren't brown.
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This tape is about a half-century old.
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It came from the attic of the New York Stock Exchange.
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When I was at a conference there a year ago,
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I mentioned to the vice president there
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that I had told my class about ticker tape machines
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and they had never heard of them--didn't know what they were;
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well, at least some of them hadn't.
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So, he sent me this. This was never used,
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but normally it would go into a machine
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and it would print out stock prices at trades.
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I was giving a talk yesterday at the New York Stock Exchange