In the 1970's, the first challenging task that I had in my career in information technology was a project to record the stock prices and typeset the stock tables of the Associated Press which appeared in nearly every paper which was a member of the AP: DECsystem-10 and the Associated Press Financial News Service.
The Associated Press then was a mixture of some very old and some very new technologies and some young guys like me and men in their 60's who were themselves in their 20's during the Great Depression.
Technology progresses again and while I'm sure there will be papers who will continue to print the stock tables, the New York Times won't be one of them.
New York Times to scrap weekday stock tables : AP
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times will replace the six pages of stock tables it prints Tuesdays through Saturdays with daily spreads of graphics and charts containing financial information.
The newspaper said it will also bolster its Web site to provide more in-depth data about a particular stock than the newspaper currently provides.
The new format will debut April 4, the Times said Monday.
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