I started at Drexel Burnham in Beverly Hills 1986, picture 4 rookie brokers at the corners of a large desk with one Quotron on a lazy susan in the middle, we'd take turns rotating it when we had a prospect on the line or a client calling for a quote and needed to sound like we knew what we were talking about. Only the million dollar producers could have one on their desk and one for their Admin Assistants. I still have a vacuum tube canister with the clothes hanger thing to hold the tickets. On active volume days we would put a $20 bill in the tube so the wire operator would give us preference in entering trades.
Although the senoritas in the wire room were smokin', it was the guy in the mail room, who ran the copy machine, whose palm you had to grease in order to stay one step ahead of the crowd. For some reason he was always the first to know what was coming down the pipe. just, my2¢