Trader's Keyboard

Any traders care to share their experience with a keyboard like Mr. Mont Blanc's in the picture? http://www.businessinsider.com/awesome-trading-desk-and-office-view-charles-doraine-2012-7

 

That's a Bloomberg keyboard, you need a Bloomberg Professional subscription to get one.

 

It's nothing special, just a simple Bloomberg keyboard... Standard issue with every terminal.

 

Why design a special keyboard?... Speed? accuracy? convenience? worthwhile? Or just a holdover from pre-cheap computer/ internet/ data era?

 

LOL at the "sick" office views.

 

Dude in that picture needs to go on a diet or he is going to have a heart attack soon. He's way overweight.

 

So what? Hes got a Bloomberg keyboard, so I guess his life is pretty complete huh?

 

Were these things put out to pasture by the Graphical User Interface?

 

These are some great keyboards:

http://pckeyboard.com/

But I just bought a 1984 IBM Model M keyboard in perfect condition and it is simply the best keyboard ever made by mankind. Its a little noisy because of the metallic clacking it makes when a key is pressed but it has the feeling of quality and is indestructible. You aren't going to fat finger a trade with a Model-M.

How many pieces of IT equipment are still useful 30 years after being built?

 

How about just 5 years?

That's what I thought when I looked at this guy... last man on the planet that needs that many monitors..