I just realized that ES has a picture of his trading station up at his site. For those of you that missed it, check it out... scroll down to see it, very impressive. http://www.electricsavant.com/
The old picture from the rand corp looks almost exactly like the manuevering room on a 688 attack sub. It even has the throttles. Its supposed to be a home computer? Why would you need throttles from a nuclear sub on a home computer?
also note the DEC LA36 DECwriter II Terminal in the front. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html