At the moment, trading is conducted over the telephone, but may eventually be done at computer terminals.
The newsroom, packed with reporters glued to telephones, TVs and computer terminals, is otherwise spare.
"Here's another one, empty, " says supervisor Ann Zager as she guides me among vacant chairs and black computer terminals.
In the next room, phone operators sitting at computer terminals took calls from employees to Valero's emergency hot line.
They are just simple, basic rooms with 10 to 12 computer terminals, and usually one or two telephone booths.
He had returned to his warm and cozy office with lavish furniture and the computer terminals displaying stock prices and market statistics.
The jobs will go in its Financial and Risk unit, responsible for renting out computer terminals to clients such as investment banks.
In fact very few computer terminals within the Vatican bureaucracy have direct access to the world wide web, for security reasons, though the Vatican has its own intranet.
Because only 20% of French homes have internet access, the government promises that computer terminals will be set up in town halls, with officials on hand to help citizens complete their online transactions.
Israel is no longer calling men out of their farm fields and orchards to fight, as it did in 1967 and 1973, but more often pulling them away from computer terminals in modern, globally connected companies that can ill afford their absence.
Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.
Engineers working for car companies and using networked computer-aided design terminals still file their ideas directly to the server for the chief designer to approve rather than bouncing them around among colleagues for collective improvement.
NCs when it announced the Windows Terminal standard: this makes it easier to make cheap (and easy-to-maintain) desktop machines that simply display Windows software which is actually running on a central computer (much as mainframe terminals do).
Just look at how fast information technology departments swung to servers connecting to PCs, shutting down mainframe and mini-computer data centers and wiping out thousands of green-screen terminals.
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In the Birmingham raid, police discovered chip-and-pin terminals, card account numbers, a card writer and computer software.
The project was led by Robert Taylor who was frustrated that he had three terminals in his office, each connected to a different computer and wanted better ways to share expensive computer resources.
The battle between local storage and shared storage has a long history, back to the very beginnings of the personal computer industry, when small computers with local storage began to replace dumb terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers.
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